ξενηλασία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Either:

• from ξένος (xénos, “foreigner; stranger”) +‎ ἔλασις (élasis) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns); or
• from ξενηλατεῖν (xenēlateîn, “to expel a foreigner”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā) (suggested by the Oxford English Dictionary), with ξενηλατεῖν (xenēlateîn) derived from ξένος (xénos) + ἐλαύνω (elaúnō, “to drive, set in motion; to drive away”) + -ειν (-ein, suffix forming infinitives of verbs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kse.nɛː.la.sí.aː/ → /kse.ni.laˈsi.a/ → /kse.ni.laˈsi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kse.nɛː.la.sí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kse.ne̝.laˈsi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kse.ni.laˈsi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kse.ni.laˈsi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kse.ni.laˈsi.a/

Noun

ξενηλᾰσῐ́ᾱ • (xenēlasíā) f (genitive ξενηλᾰσῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. xenelasia, expulsion of foreigners

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ξενηλᾰσῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ξενηλᾰσῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ξενηλᾰσῐ́ᾱ hē xenēlasíā	τὼ ξενηλᾰσῐ́ᾱ tṑ xenēlasíā	αἱ ξενηλᾰσῐ́αι hai xenēlasíai
Genitive	τῆς ξενηλᾰσῐ́ᾱς tês xenēlasíās	τοῖν ξενηλᾰσῐ́αιν toîn xenēlasíain	τῶν ξενηλᾰσῐῶν tôn xenēlasiôn
Dative	τῇ ξενηλᾰσῐ́ᾳ têi xenēlasíāi	τοῖν ξενηλᾰσῐ́αιν toîn xenēlasíain	ταῖς ξενηλᾰσῐ́αις taîs xenēlasíais
Accusative	τὴν ξενηλᾰσῐ́ᾱν tḕn xenēlasíān	τὼ ξενηλᾰσῐ́ᾱ tṑ xenēlasíā	τᾱ̀ς ξενηλᾰσῐ́ᾱς tā̀s xenēlasíās
Vocative	ξενηλᾰσῐ́ᾱ xenēlasíā	ξενηλᾰσῐ́ᾱ xenēlasíā	ξενηλᾰσῐ́αι xenēlasíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: xenelasia, xenelasy (learned)
• → French: xénélasie (learned)

Further reading

• “ξενηλασία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ξενηλασία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette