Ἁλικαρνασσός

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ha.li.kar.naːs.sós/ → /a.li.kar.nasˈsos/ → /a.li.kar.naˈsos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ha.li.kar.naːs.sós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)a.li.kar.nasˈsos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.li.kar.nasˈsos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.li.kar.nasˈsos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.li.kar.naˈsos/

Proper noun

Ἁλῐκαρνᾱσσός • (Halikarnāssós) f (genitive Ἁλῐκαρνασσοῦ); second declension

1. Halicarnassus; Petronium; Bodrum, Turkey

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ Ἁλικαρνᾱσσός; τῆς Ἁλικαρνᾱσσοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ἁλικαρνᾱσσός hē Halikarnāssós
Genitive	τῆς Ἁλικαρνᾱσσοῦ tês Halikarnāssoû
Dative	τῇ Ἁλικαρνᾱσσῷ têi Halikarnāssôi
Accusative	τὴν Ἁλικαρνᾱσσόν tḕn Halikarnāssón
Vocative	Ἁλικαρνᾱσσέ Halikarnāssé
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ἁλικαρνασσεύς (Halikarnasseús)

Descendants

• Greek: Αλικαρνασσός (Alikarnassós)
• Latin: Halicarnassus
• Turkish: Halikarnassos

Further reading

• “Ἁλικαρνασσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ἁλικαρνασσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Ἁλικαρνασσός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,012