Ancient Greek

Proper noun

Ἕλος • ‎(Hélos) n ‎(genitive Ἕλους); third declension

1. Helos; Elos, Laconia, Greece

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: Έλος ‎(Élos)
• Latin: Helos

References

• «Ἕλος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,012

Ancient Greek

Noun

ἕλος • ‎(hélos) n ‎(genitive ἕλεος); third declension

1. marsh-meadow
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 20.221
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 4.483
   1. marshy ground
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.474
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.191
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.110
      • Inscr.Cypr. 135.9
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 1.2.7
2. backwater
   • 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.1283

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Translingual: Elodea
• English: helophyte
• Greek: έλος ‎(élos)

References

• ἕλος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἕλος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἕλος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἕλος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἕλος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «ἕλος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bog idem, page 87.
  • fen idem, page 315.
  • Helos idem, page 1012.
  • marsh idem, page 515.
  • quagmire idem, page 662.
  • slough idem, page 785.
  • swamp idem, page 846.

1. ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἕλος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 415
2. ↑ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 253