Ἠλύσιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Proper noun

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

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

Declension

Second declension of τὸ Ἠλῠ́σῐον; τοῦ Ἠλῠσῐ́ου

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ Ἠλῠ́σῐον	τὼ Ἠλῠσῐ́ω	τᾰ̀ Ἠλῠ́σῐᾰ
Genitive	τοῦ Ἠλῠσῐ́ου	τοῖν Ἠλῠσῐ́οιν	τῶν Ἠλῠσῐ́ων
Dative	τῷ Ἠλῠσῐ́ῳ	τοῖν Ἠλῠσῐ́οιν	τοῖς Ἠλῠσῐ́οις
Accusative	τὸ Ἠλῠ́σῐον	τὼ Ἠλῠσῐ́ω	τᾰ̀ Ἠλῠ́σῐᾰ
Vocative	Ἠλῠ́σῐον	Ἠλῠσῐ́ω	Ἠλῠ́σῐᾰ
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἐνηλύσιος (enēlúsios)

Descendants

• Greek: Ηλύσιο (Ilýsio)
• Latin: Ēlysium

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