Ἑλλάς

See also: Ελλάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

See Ἕλλην (Héllēn).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hel.lás/ → /elˈlas/ → /eˈlas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hel.lás/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)elˈlas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /elˈlas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /elˈlas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /eˈlas/

Proper noun

Ἑλλᾰ́ς • (Hellắs) f (genitive Ἑλλᾰ́δος); third declension

1. various areas in Greece, such as the region surrounding Dodona, Thessaly, Phthiotis, or Northern Greece
2. Greece
3. all lands inhabited by Greeks, including Ionia
4. the Greek language

Declension

Third declension of ἡ Ἑλλᾰ́ς; τῆς Ἑλλᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ἑλλᾰ́ς hē Hellắs
Genitive	τῆς Ἑλλᾰ́δος tês Hellắdos
Dative	τῇ Ἑλλᾰ́δῐ têi Hellắdĭ
Accusative	τὴν Ἑλλᾰ́δᾰ tḕn Hellắdă
Vocative	Ἑλλᾰ́ς Hellắs
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

• Ἑλλᾰδῐκός (Hellădĭkós)

Descendants

• Greek: Ελλάς (Ellás), Ελλάδα (Elláda)
  • → English: Ellada
  • → Macedonian: Ела́да (Eláda)
  • → Russian: Элла́да (Elláda)
• Pontic Greek: Ελλάδαν (Elládan)
• → Chinese: 希臘 / 希腊 (Xīlà) (see there for further descendants)
• → English: Hellas
• → German: Hellas
• → Latin: Hellas
  • → French: Hellade
  • → Polish: Hellada
  • → Portuguese: Hélade
  • → Spanish: Hélade

Further reading

• Greece on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “Ἑλλάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ἑλλάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Ἑλλάς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• Ἑλλάς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• “Ἑλλάς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1671 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,011