Ἠλύσιον

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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Pre-Greek; possibly implying an unattested Elysian language.[1]

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Ἠλῠ́σῐον (Ēlúsionn (genitive Ἠλῠσῐ́ου); second declension

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

Declension

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Greek: Ηλύσιο (Ilýsio)
  • Latin: Ēlysium n sg

References

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  1. ^ 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, page 517

Further reading

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  • 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