ἅλως
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Probably from Pre-Greek. Compare, however, Albanian lëmë and its proto-form.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /há.lɔːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)a.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.los/
Noun edit
ἅλως • (hálōs) f (genitive ἅλω); second declension
- threshing floor
- grain on the floor
- disk (of the sun, the moon, or a shield)
- halo
- serpent's coil
- bird's nest
- ciliary body of the eye
- circular piazza at Delphi
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἅλως hē hálōs |
τὼ ἅλω tṑ hálō |
αἱ ἅλῳ hai hálōi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἅλω tês hálō |
τοῖν ἅλῳν toîn hálōin |
τῶν ἅλων tôn hálōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἅλῳ têi hálōi |
τοῖν ἅλῳν toîn hálōin |
ταῖς ἅλῳς taîs hálōis | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἅλω / ἅλων tḕn hálō(n) |
τὼ ἅλω tṑ hálō |
τᾱ̀ς ἅλως tā̀s hálōs | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἅλως hálōs |
ἅλω hálō |
ἅλῳ hálōi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
- Εὐρύαλος (Eurúalos)
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “ἅλως”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἅλως”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἅλως in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette