Παλλάς

See also: Πάλλας

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Likely derived from πάλλω (pállō), meaning "to brandish", given to Athena as an epithet of "she who brandishes" a spear.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pal.lás/ → /palˈlas/ → /paˈlas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pal.lás/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /palˈlas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /palˈlas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /palˈlas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /paˈlas/

Proper noun

Παλλάς • (Pallás) f (genitive Παλλάδος); third declension

1. Pallas (Athena)
2. Pallas, daughter of Triton

Usage notes

Παλλάς (Pallás) is feminine and uses the third declension stem Παλλάδ-. The similarly-spelt name Πάλλας (Pállas) is masculine and uses the different third declension stem Πάλλαντ-.

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Πᾰλλᾰ́ς; τῆς Πᾰλλᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Πᾰλλᾰ́ς hē Pallás
Genitive	τῆς Πᾰλλᾰ́δος tês Palládos
Dative	τῇ Πᾰλλᾰ́δῐ têi Palládi
Accusative	τὴν Πᾰλλᾰ́δᾰ tḕn Palláda
Vocative	Πᾰλλᾰ́ς Pallás
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

• Παλλάδιον (Palládion)

Descendants

• Greek: Παλλάδα (Palláda)

References

• “Παλλάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Παλλάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Παλλάς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,003