ἅλας

See also: άλας and Ἄλας

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /há.las/ → /ˈa.las/ → /ˈa.las/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /há.las/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)a.las/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.las/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.las/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈa.las/

Noun

ᾰ̔́λᾰς • (hắlăs)

1. accusative plural of ᾰ̔́λς (hắls)

Noun

ᾰ̔́λᾰς • (hắlăs) n (genitive ἅλᾰτος); third declension

1. Attic form of ᾰ̔́λς (hắls, “salt”)

Declension

Third declension of τὸ ᾰ̔́λᾰς; τοῦ ᾰ̔́λᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ᾰ̔́λᾰς tò hắlăs	τὼ ᾰ̔́λᾰτε tṑ hắlăte	τᾰ̀ ᾰ̔́λᾰτᾰ tằ hắlătă
Genitive	τοῦ ᾰ̔́λᾰτος toû hắlătos	τοῖν ᾰ̔λᾰ́τοιν toîn hălắtoin	τῶν ᾰ̔λᾰ́των tôn hălắtōn
Dative	τῷ ᾰ̔́λᾰτῐ tōî hắlătĭ	τοῖν ᾰ̔λᾰ́τοιν toîn hălắtoin	τοῖς ᾰ̔́λᾰσῐ / ᾰ̔́λᾰσῐν toîs hắlăsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ ᾰ̔́λᾰς tò hắlăs	τὼ ᾰ̔́λᾰτε tṑ hắlăte	τᾰ̀ ᾰ̔́λᾰτᾰ tằ hắlătă
Vocative	ᾰ̔́λᾰς hắlăs	ᾰ̔́λᾰτε hắlăte	ᾰ̔́λᾰτᾰ hắlătă
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 *-τς (*-ts).

Descendants

• Greek: αλάτι (aláti)
• → Greek: άλας (álas)

Further reading

• “ἅλας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἅλας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἅλας” in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G217 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible