Elean

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Adjective

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Elean (comparative more Elean, superlative most Elean)

  1. Of or relating to Elis or Eleia in Ancient Greece.
    • 1980, Leonard Robert Palmer, The Greek language, page 96:
      This distribution has puzzled grammarians, but the Iliadic examples are all from Nestor's account of the Elean war. The aberrant spelling must date from after the alleged metagrammatism.

Noun

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Elean (plural Eleans)

  1. A native or inhabitant of Elis or Eleia in Ancient Greece.

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