ἄλυς

See also: Ἅλυς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, related to ἀλύω (alúō). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /á.lys/ → /ˈa.lys/ → /ˈa.lis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /á.lys/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈa.lys/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.lys/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.lys/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈa.lis/

Noun

ἄλῠς • (álus) m (genitive ἄλῠος); third declension

1. agitation
2. ennui, listlessness

Declension

Third declension of ὁ ᾰ̓́λῠς; τοῦ ᾰ̓́λῠος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ᾰ̓́λῠς ho álus	τὼ ᾰ̓́λῠε tṑ álue	οἱ ᾰ̓́λῠες hoi álues
Genitive	τοῦ ᾰ̓́λῠος toû áluos	τοῖν ᾰ̓λῠ́οιν toîn alúoin	τῶν ᾰ̓λῠ́ων tôn alúōn
Dative	τῷ ᾰ̓́λῠῐ̈ / ᾰ̓́λυι tôi áluï / álui	τοῖν ᾰ̓λῠ́οιν toîn alúoin	τοῖς ᾰ̓́λῠσῐ / ᾰ̓́λῠσῐν toîs álusi(n)
Accusative	τὸν ᾰ̓́λῠν tòn álun	τὼ ᾰ̓́λῠε tṑ álue	τοὺς ᾰ̓́λῡς / ᾰ̓́λῠᾰς toùs álūs / áluas
Vocative	ᾰ̓́λῠ álu	ᾰ̓́λῠε álue	ᾰ̓́λῠες álues
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Basalys

Further reading

• “ἄλυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN