ἰλλάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind”). Further related to εἰλέω (eiléō, “to turn, roll”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /il.lás/ → /ilˈlas/ → /iˈlas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /il.lás/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ilˈlas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ilˈlas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ilˈlas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈlas/

Noun

ἰλλᾰ́ς • (illás) f (genitive ἰλλᾰ́δος); third declension

1. rope, band, twisted cord
2. redwing (Turdus iliacus)

   Synonym: τῠλᾰ́ς (tulás)

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἰλλᾰ́ς hē illás	τὼ ἰλλᾰ́δε tṑ illáde	αἱ ἰλλᾰ́δες hai illádes
Genitive	τῆς ἰλλᾰ́δος tês illádos	τοῖν ἰλλᾰ́δοιν toîn illádoin	τῶν ἰλλᾰ́δων tôn illádōn
Dative	τῇ ἰλλᾰ́δῐ têi illádi	τοῖν ἰλλᾰ́δοιν toîn illádoin	ταῖς ἰλλᾰ́σῐ / ἰλλᾰ́σῐν taîs illási(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἰλλᾰ́δᾰ tḕn illáda	τὼ ἰλλᾰ́δε tṑ illáde	τᾱ̀ς ἰλλᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s illádas
Vocative	ἰλλᾰ́ς illás	ἰλλᾰ́δε illáde	ἰλλᾰ́δες illádes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Third declension of ἡ ἰλλᾰ́ς; τῆς ἰλλᾰ́δος (Attic)

Further reading

• “ἰλλάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἰλλάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἰλλάς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἰλλάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἰλλάς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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