ἡλιαία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ᾱ̔λιαίᾱ (hāliaíā) — Doric

Etymology

From ᾱ̔λίᾱ (hālíā, “assembly of people”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to push, press”) (whence εἴλω (eílō, “to shut in, press”), ῑ̓́λη (ī́lē, “band, troop”) and many others).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hɛː.li.ǎi̯.aː/ → /i.liˈɛ.a/ → /i.liˈe.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hɛː.li.ǎi̯.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)e̝.liˈɛ.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.liˈɛ.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.liˈe.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.liˈe.a/

Noun

ἡλιαίᾱ • (hēliaíā) f (genitive ἡλιαίᾱς); first declension

1. public place or hall (in which the chief law-court was held)
2. supreme court (at Athens)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἡλιαίᾱ; τῆς ἡλιαίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἡλιαίᾱ hē hēliaíā	τὼ ἡλιαίᾱ tṑ hēliaíā	αἱ ἡλιαῖαι hai hēliaîai
Genitive	τῆς ἡλιαίᾱς tês hēliaíās	τοῖν ἡλιαίαιν toîn hēliaíain	τῶν ἡλιαιῶν tôn hēliaiôn
Dative	τῇ ἡλιαίᾳ têi hēliaíāi	τοῖν ἡλιαίαιν toîn hēliaíain	ταῖς ἡλιαίαις taîs hēliaíais
Accusative	τὴν ἡλιαίᾱν tḕn hēliaíān	τὼ ἡλιαίᾱ tṑ hēliaíā	τᾱ̀ς ἡλιαίᾱς tā̀s hēliaíās
Vocative	ἡλιαίᾱ hēliaíā	ἡλιαίᾱ hēliaíā	ἡλιαῖαι hēliaîai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἡλιάζομαι (hēliázomai)

Further reading

• “ἡλιαία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἡλιαία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἡλιαία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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