ἐλλός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁el-nó-s, from *h₁el- (“deer”). Compare ἔλαφος (élaphos, “red deer”), Lithuanian elnias (“deer, stag, hart”), Russian оле́нь (olénʹ, “deer”), Russian лось (losʹ, “elk”), Old Armenian եղն (ełn, “hind”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /el.lós/ → /elˈlos/ → /eˈlos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /el.lós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /elˈlos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /elˈlos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /elˈlos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /eˈlos/

Noun

ἐλλός • (ellós) m (genitive ἐλλοῦ); second declension

1. fawn, young deer

   Synonym: νεβρός (nebrós)

Declension

Second declension of ὁ ἐλλός; τοῦ ἐλλοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἐλλός ho ellós	τὼ ἐλλώ tṑ ellṓ	οἱ ἐλλοί hoi elloí
Genitive	τοῦ ἐλλοῦ toû elloû	τοῖν ἐλλοῖν toîn elloîn	τῶν ἐλλῶν tôn ellôn
Dative	τῷ ἐλλῷ tôi ellôi	τοῖν ἐλλοῖν toîn elloîn	τοῖς ἐλλοῖς toîs elloîs
Accusative	τὸν ἐλλόν tòn ellón	τὼ ἐλλώ tṑ ellṓ	τοὺς ἐλλούς toùs elloús
Vocative	ἐλλέ ellé	ἐλλώ ellṓ	ἐλλοί elloí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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