ἐλάτη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

No certain etymology. Maybe from the same source of Proto-Germanic *linþaz (“pliable”) and Latin lentus (“flexible”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.lá.tɛː/ → /eˈla.ti/ → /eˈla.ti/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.lá.tɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /eˈla.te̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eˈla.ti/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /eˈla.ti/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /eˈla.ti/

Noun

ἐλάτη • (elátē) f (genitive ἐλάτης); first declension

1. fir (tree of the genus Abies)
2. oar, rudder

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἐλάτη; τῆς ἐλάτης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐλάτη hē elátē	τὼ ἐλάτᾱ tṑ elátā	αἱ ἐλάται hai elátai
Genitive	τῆς ἐλάτης tês elátēs	τοῖν ἐλάταιν toîn elátain	τῶν ἐλατῶν tôn elatôn
Dative	τῇ ἐλάτῃ têi elátēi	τοῖν ἐλάταιν toîn elátain	ταῖς ἐλάταις taîs elátais
Accusative	τὴν ἐλάτην tḕn elátēn	τὼ ἐλάτᾱ tṑ elátā	τᾱ̀ς ἐλάτᾱς tā̀s elátās
Vocative	ἐλάτη elátē	ἐλάτᾱ elátā	ἐλάται elátai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἐλατηΐς (elatēḯs)
• ἐλάτινος (elátinos)

Descendants

• Greek: έλατο (élato)

References

• “ἐλάτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἐλάτη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἐλάτη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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