Ἑλικών

See also: ελίκων

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /he.li.kɔ̌ːn/ → /e.liˈkon/ → /e.liˈkon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /he.li.kɔ̌ːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)e.liˈkon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.liˈkon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.liˈkon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.liˈkon/

Proper noun

Ἑλῐκών • (Helikṓn) m (genitive Ἑλῐκῶνος); third declension

1. Mount Helicon, Boeotia, Greece
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 639

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Ἑλῐκών; τοῦ Ἑλῐκῶνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ἑλῐκών ho Helikṓn
Genitive	τοῦ Ἑλῐκῶνος toû Helikônos
Dative	τῷ Ἑλῐκῶνῐ tôi Helikôni
Accusative	τὸν Ἑλῐκῶνᾰ tòn Helikôna
Vocative	Ἑλῐκών Helikṓn
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ἑλικωνιάδες (Helikōniádes)
• Ἑλικωνιάς (Helikōniás)

Descendants

• Greek: Ελικών (Elikón); Ελικώνας (Elikónas)
• → Latin: Helicōn

Further reading

• “Ἑλικών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ἑλικών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Ἑλικών in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,012