Ἐλαιοῦς

See also: ἐλαιοῦς and ἐλαίους

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.lai̯.ûːs/ → /e.lɛˈus/ → /e.leˈus/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.lai̯.ûːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.lɛˈus/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.lɛˈus/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.leˈus/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.leˈus/

Proper noun

Ἐλαιοῦς • (Elaioûs) m (genitive Ἐλαιοῦντος); third declension

1. Elaeus
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.140.1

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Ἐλαιοῦς; τοῦ Ἐλαιοῦντος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ἐλαιοῦς ho Elaioûs
Genitive	τοῦ Ἐλαιοῦντος toû Elaioûntos
Dative	τῷ Ἐλαιοῦντῐ tôi Elaioûnti
Accusative	τὸν Ἐλαιοῦντᾰ tòn Elaioûnta
Vocative	Ἐλαιοῦν Elaioûn
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Ελαιούς (Elaioús); Ελαιούντα (Elaioúnta)
• Latin: Elaeus

Further reading

• “Ἐλαιοῦς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ἐλαιοῦς 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 1,009