Ἠλύσιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Pre-Greek; possibly implying an unattested Elysian language.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɛː.lý.si.on/ → /iˈly.si.on/ → /iˈli.si.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɛː.lý.si.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e̝ˈly.si.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈly.si.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈly.si.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈli.si.on/

Proper noun

Ἠλῠ́σῐον • (Ēlúsion) n (genitive Ἠλῠσῐ́ου); second declension

1. Elysium; an Elysian field; one of the Elysian fields

Declension

Second declension of τὸ Ἠλῠ́σῐον; τοῦ Ἠλῠσῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ Ἠλῠ́σῐον tò Ēlúsion	τὼ Ἠλῠσῐ́ω tṑ Ēlusíō	τᾰ̀ Ἠλῠ́σῐᾰ tà Ēlúsia
Genitive	τοῦ Ἠλῠσῐ́ου toû Ēlusíou	τοῖν Ἠλῠσῐ́οιν toîn Ēlusíoin	τῶν Ἠλῠσῐ́ων tôn Ēlusíōn
Dative	τῷ Ἠλῠσῐ́ῳ tôi Ēlusíōi	τοῖν Ἠλῠσῐ́οιν toîn Ēlusíoin	τοῖς Ἠλῠσῐ́οις toîs Ēlusíois
Accusative	τὸ Ἠλῠ́σῐον tò Ēlúsion	τὼ Ἠλῠσῐ́ω tṑ Ēlusíō	τᾰ̀ Ἠλῠ́σῐᾰ tà Ēlúsia
Vocative	Ἠλῠ́σῐον Ēlúsion	Ἠλῠσῐ́ω Ēlusíō	Ἠλῠ́σῐᾰ Ēlúsia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ἠλύσιος (Ēlúsios)
• ἐνηλύσιος (enēlúsios)

Descendants

• ⇒ Greek: Ηλύσιο (Ilýsio)
• → Latin: Ēlysium n sg
  • → French: Élysée m, Elysée
    • → English: Élysée
    • → Korean: 엘리제 (Ellije)

Further reading

• “Ἠλύσιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ἠλύσιον”, 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,009