Ἠλύσιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Pre-Greek; possibly implying an unattested Elysian language.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɛː.lý.si.on/ → /iˈly.si.on/ → /iˈli.si.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɛː.lý.si.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e̝ˈly.si.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈly.si.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈly.si.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈli.si.on/

Proper noun

Ἠλῠ́σῐον • (Ēlŭ́sĭon) n (genitive Ἠλῠσῐ́ου); second declension

1. Elysium; an Elysian field; one of the Elysian fields

Declension

Second declension of τὸ Ἠλῠ́σῐον; τοῦ Ἠλῠσῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ Ἠλῠ́σῐον tò Ēlŭ́sĭon	τὼ Ἠλῠσῐ́ω tṑ Ēlŭsĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ Ἠλῠ́σῐᾰ tằ Ēlŭ́sĭă
Genitive	τοῦ Ἠλῠσῐ́ου toû Ēlŭsĭ́ou	τοῖν Ἠλῠσῐ́οιν toîn Ēlŭsĭ́oin	τῶν Ἠλῠσῐ́ων tôn Ēlŭsĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ Ἠλῠσῐ́ῳ tôi Ēlŭsĭ́ōi	τοῖν Ἠλῠσῐ́οιν toîn Ēlŭsĭ́oin	τοῖς Ἠλῠσῐ́οις toîs Ēlŭsĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ Ἠλῠ́σῐον tò Ēlŭ́sĭon	τὼ Ἠλῠσῐ́ω tṑ Ēlŭsĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ Ἠλῠ́σῐᾰ tằ Ēlŭ́sĭă
Vocative	Ἠλῠ́σῐον Ēlŭ́sĭon	Ἠλῠσῐ́ω Ēlŭsĭ́ō	Ἠλῠ́σῐᾰ Ēlŭ́sĭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ἠλύσιος (Ēlúsios)
• ἐνηλύσιος (enēlúsios)

Descendants

• ⇒ Greek: Ηλύσιο (Ilýsio)
• → Latin: Ēlysium n sg
  • → French: Élysée m, Elysée
    • → English: Élysée
    • → Korean: 엘리제 (Ellije)

Adjective

Ἠλύσῐον • (Ēlúsĭon)

1. inflection of Ἠλύσιος (Ēlúsios):
   1. masculine accusative singular
   2. neuter nominative/vocative/accusative singular

Further reading

• “Ἠλύσιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ἠλύσιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,009