ἐλαία

See also: ελαία

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Ancient GreekEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• ἐλᾱ́ᾱ (elā́ā) – Attic

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Hellenic *elaíwā (whence also Mycenaean Greek 𐀁𐀨𐀷 (e-ra-wa)). Probably a borrowing from a Mediterranean Pre-Greek source, which also gave Old Armenian եւղ (ewł, “oil”).

PronunciationEdit

 

• IPA^(key): /e.laí̯.aː/ → /eˈlɛ.a/ → /eˈle.a/

• (5^th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /e.laí̯.aː/
• (1^st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ɛˈlɛ.a/
• (4^th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /eˈlɛ.a/
• (10^th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /eˈle.a/
• (15^th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /eˈle.a/

NounEdit

ἐλαίᾱ • (elaíā) f (genitive ἐλαίᾱς); first declension

1. olive tree
2. olive (fruit)
3. naevus

DeclensionEdit

First declension of ἡ ἐλαίᾱ; τῆς ἐλαίᾱς

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐλαίᾱ	τὼ ἐλαίᾱ	αἱ ἐλαῖαι
Genitive	τῆς ἐλαίᾱς	τοῖν ἐλαίαιν	τῶν ἐλαιῶν
Dative	τῇ ἐλαίᾳ	τοῖν ἐλαίαιν	ταῖς ἐλαίαις
Accusative	τὴν ἐλαίᾱν	τὼ ἐλαίᾱ	τᾱ̀ς ἐλαίᾱς
Vocative	ἐλαίᾱ	ἐλαίᾱ	ἐλαῖαι
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived termsEdit

• ἐλᾶαι στοιχᾰ́δες (elâai stoikhádes)

Related termsEdit

• ἔλαιον (élaion)

DescendantsEdit

• Greek: ελαία f (elaía)
• Greek: ελιά f (eliá)
• Latin: oliva

ReferencesEdit

• ἐλαία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἐλαία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἐλαία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἐλαία» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2017)
• ἐλαία in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G1636”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • olive idem, page 572.
• 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