ἐλαία

See also: ελαία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἐλᾱ́ᾱ (elā́ā) — Attic
• ἐλαίη (elaíē) — Epic, Ionic

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *elaíwā (whence also Mycenaean Greek 𐀁𐀨𐀷 (e-ra-wa)). Probably a borrowing from a Mediterranean Pre-Greek source, which may also be the source of Old Armenian եւղ (ewł, “oil”), possibly from Proto-Berber *wlw (“wild olive”).

Pronunciation

 

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

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.lǎi̯.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /eˈlɛ.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eˈlɛ.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /eˈle.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /eˈle.a/

Noun

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

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

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἐλαίᾱ; τῆς ἐλαίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐλαίᾱ hē elaíā	τὼ ἐλαίᾱ tṑ elaíā	αἱ ἐλαῖαι hai elaîai
Genitive	τῆς ἐλαίᾱς tês elaíās	τοῖν ἐλαίαιν toîn elaíain	τῶν ἐλαιῶν tôn elaiôn
Dative	τῇ ἐλαίᾳ têi elaíāi	τοῖν ἐλαίαιν toîn elaíain	ταῖς ἐλαίαις taîs elaíais
Accusative	τὴν ἐλαίᾱν tḕn elaíān	τὼ ἐλαίᾱ tṑ elaíā	τᾱ̀ς ἐλαίᾱς tā̀s elaíās
Vocative	ἐλαίᾱ elaíā	ἐλαίᾱ elaíā	ἐλαῖαι elaîai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἐλᾶαι στοιχᾰ́δες (elâai stoikhắdes)
• ἐλαίαγνος (elaíagnos)
• ἐλάϊνος (eláïnos)
• θυμελαία (thumelaía)
• χαμελαία (khamelaía)

Related terms

• ἔλαιον (élaion)
• ἐλαιοπώλης (elaiopṓlēs)

Descendants

• Greek: ελαία f (elaía)
• Greek: ελιά f (eliá)
• Etruscan: *𐌄𐌋𐌄𐌉𐌅𐌀 (*eleiva)

Further reading

• “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 (2006–2025)
• “ἐλαία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1636 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • olive idem, page 572.