ἐλαία

See also: ελαία

Contents

Ancient GreekEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• ἐλάα ‎(eláa) (Attic)

EtymologyEdit

From earlier *ἐλαίϝα ‎(*elaíwa), compare Mycenaean 𐀁𐀨𐀷 ‎(e-ra-wa). Probably a borrowing from a Mediterranean Pre-Greek source, which also gave Old Armenian եւղ ‎(ewł, “oil”).

PronunciationEdit

 

• IPA: /e.la͜í.aː/ → /e.ˈlɛ.a/ → /e.ˈle.a/

• 5th BC Attic: IPA: /e.la͜í.aː/
• 1st BC Egyptian: IPA: /ɛ.ˈlɛ.a/
• 4th AD Koine: IPA: /e.ˈlɛ.a/
• 10th AD Byzantine: IPA: /e.ˈle.a/
• 15th AD Constantinopolitan: IPA: /e.ˈle.a/

NounEdit

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

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

InflectionEdit

First declension of ἐλαίᾱ, ἐλαίᾱς

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἐλαίᾱ	ἐλαίᾱ	ἐλαῖαι
Genitive	ἐλαίᾱς	ἐλαίαιν	ἐλαιῶν
Dative	ἐλαίᾳ	ἐλαίαιν	ἐλαίαις
Accusative	ἐλαίᾱν	ἐλαίᾱ	ἐλαίᾱς
Vocative	ἐλαίᾱ	ἐλαίᾱ	ἐλαῖαι
Dialectal forms:
Notes:

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 (© 2006–2016)
• 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