ἁλουργίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἁλουργής (halourgḗs, “sea-purple”) +‎ -ῐ́ς (-ís).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ha.luːr.ɡís/ → /a.lurˈʝis/ → /a.lurˈʝis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ha.luːr.ɡís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)a.lurˈɡis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.lurˈʝis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.lurˈʝis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.lurˈʝis/

Noun

ᾰ̔λουργῐ́ς • (halourgís) f (genitive ᾰ̔λουργῐ́δος); third declension

1. purple robe
   • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 967
2. (attributive, with ἐσθής, false reading in Lucian, The Ship 22) purple robe

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ᾰ̔λουργῐ́ς; τῆς ᾰ̔λουργῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̔λουργῐ́ς hē halourgís	τὼ ᾰ̔λουργῐ́δε tṑ halourgíde	αἱ ᾰ̔λουργῐ́δες hai halourgídes
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̔λουργῐ́δος tês halourgídos	τοῖν ᾰ̔λουργῐ́δοιν toîn halourgídoin	τῶν ᾰ̔λουργῐ́δων tôn halourgídōn
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̔λουργῐ́δῐ têi halourgídi	τοῖν ᾰ̔λουργῐ́δοιν toîn halourgídoin	ταῖς ᾰ̔λουργῐ́σῐ / ᾰ̔λουργῐ́σῐν taîs halourgísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̔λουργῐ́δᾰ tḕn halourgída	τὼ ᾰ̔λουργῐ́δε tṑ halourgíde	τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̔λουργῐ́δᾰς tā̀s halourgídas
Vocative	ᾰ̔λουργῐ́ς halourgís	ᾰ̔λουργῐ́δε halourgíde	ᾰ̔λουργῐ́δες halourgídes
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.

Derived terms

• ἁλουργίδιον (halourgídion)

References

• “ἁλουργίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἁλουργίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἁλουργίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἁλουργίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• ἁλουργίς in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften