Ἐλευσίς

See also: ἔλευσις

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.leu̯.sǐːs/ → /e.leɸˈsis/ → /e.lefˈsis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.leu̯.sǐːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.lewˈsis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.leɸˈsis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.lefˈsis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.lefˈsis/

Proper noun

Ἐλευσῑ́ς • (Eleusī́s) f (genitive Ἐλευσῖνος); third declension

1. Eleusis; Eleusina, Attica, Greece

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Ἐλευσῑ́ς; τῆς Ἐλευσῖνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ἐλευσῑ́ς hē Eleusī́s
Genitive	τῆς Ἐλευσῖνος tês Eleusînos
Dative	τῇ Ἐλευσῖνῐ têi Eleusîni
Accusative	τὴν Ἐλευσῖνᾰ tḕn Eleusîna
Vocative	Ἐλευσῑ́ς Eleusī́s
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ἐλευσῖνι (Eleusîni)
• Ἐλευσινόθεν (Eleusinóthen)
• Ἐλευσίναδε (Eleusínade)
• Ἐλευσίνιος (Eleusínios)

Descendants

• Greek: Ελευσίς (Elefsís); Ελευσίνα (Elefsína)
• → Armenian: Էլեֆսիս (Ēlefsis), Էլեֆսին (Ēlefsin)
• → English: Eleusis; Eleusina
• → Georgian: ელევსისი (elevsisi)
• → Latin: Eleusis
• → Russian: Элефси́с (Elefsís), Элевси́н (Elevsín)

Further reading

• “Ἐλευσίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ἐλευσίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Ἐλευσίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “Ἐλευσίς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,009
• “Ἐλευσίς”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011