Ἰλιάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Ῑ̓́λῐον (Ī́lion) +‎ -ᾰ́ς (-ás).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Ῑ̓λῐᾰ́ς • (Īliás) f (genitive Ῑ̓λῐᾰ́δος); third declension

  1. the Iliad
  2. the lands of Ilium or Troy; Troas; the Troad

Inflection
Third declension of ἡ Ῑ̓λῐᾰ́ς; τῆς Ῑ̓λῐᾰ́δος (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Ῑ̓λῐᾰ́ς
hē Īliás
Genitive τῆς Ῑ̓λῐᾰ́δος
tês Īliádos
Dative τῇ Ῑ̓λῐᾰ́δῐ
têi Īliádi
Accusative τὴν Ῑ̓λῐᾰ́δᾰ
tḕn Īliáda
Vocative Ῑ̓λῐᾰ́ς
Īliás
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
  • Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

References
  • Ἰλιάς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Ἰλιάς 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 1,013
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