Eleusis

English

Proper noun

Eleusis

1. Alternative form of Elefsina, Greece.

Latin

Alternative forms

• Eleusin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἐλευσίς (Eleusís).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eˈleu̯.siːs/, [ɛˈɫ̪ɛu̯s̠iːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈleu̯.sis/, [eˈlɛːu̯sis]

Proper noun

Eleusīs f sg (genitive Eleusīnis); third declension

1. An ancient city of Attica, famous for its mysteries of Demeter and Persephone
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.62.3:

     sed contra Eleusina clara Salamis.

     Opposite Eleusis is the famous island of Salamis

   • AD c. 40–103, Sextus Julius Frontinus, Strategemata 2.9.9.2:

     Pisistratus Atheniensis, cum excepisset Megarensium classem, qua illi ad Eleusin noctu applicuerant, ut operatas Cereris sacro feminas Atheniensium raperent

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant), with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Eleusīs Eleusīn
genitive	Eleusīnis Eleusīnos
dative	Eleusīnī
accusative	Eleusīnem Eleusīna Eleusīn
ablative	Eleusīne
vocative	Eleusīs Eleusī1
locative	Eleusīnī Eleusīne

¹In poetry.

Related terms

• Eleusīnus
• Eleusīnius
• Eleusīnia

References

• “Eleusin”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Eleusis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Eleusis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.