Ἠλύσιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly Pre-Greek.[1]

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

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

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

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Greek: Ηλύσιο (Ilýsio)
  • Latin: Ēlysium

References

  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, page 517

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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,009
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