καλλίας

See also: Καλλίας

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

κᾰλλῐ́ης (kăllĭ́ēs) — Ionic
κᾰλλῐ́ᾱρ (kăllĭ́ār) — Laconian

Etymology

According to Beekes, perhaps a euphemistic usage of the personal name Κᾰλλῐ́ᾱς (Kăllĭ́ās), which has been connected with κᾰ́λλος (kắllos, “beauty”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kal.lí.aːs/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kalˈli.as/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kalˈli.as/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kalˈli.as/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kaˈli.as/

Noun

κᾰλλῐ́ᾱς • (kăllĭ́ās) m (genitive κᾰλλῐ́ου); first declension

a tame ape

Declension

First declension of ὁ κᾰλλῐ́ᾱς; τοῦ κᾰλλῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κᾰλλῐ́ᾱς ho kăllĭ́ās	τὼ κᾰλλῐ́ᾱ tṑ kăllĭ́ā	οἱ κᾰλλῐ́αι hoi kăllĭ́ai
Genitive	τοῦ κᾰλλῐ́ου toû kăllĭ́ou	τοῖν κᾰλλῐ́αιν toîn kăllĭ́ain	τῶν κᾰλλῐῶν tôn kăllĭôn
Dative	τῷ κᾰλλῐ́ᾳ tōî kăllĭ́āi	τοῖν κᾰλλῐ́αιν toîn kăllĭ́ain	τοῖς κᾰλλῐ́αις toîs kăllĭ́ais
Accusative	τὸν κᾰλλῐ́ᾱν tòn kăllĭ́ān	τὼ κᾰλλῐ́ᾱ tṑ kăllĭ́ā	τοὺς κᾰλλῐ́ᾱς toùs kăllĭ́ās
Vocative	κᾰλλῐ́ᾱ kăllĭ́ā	κᾰλλῐ́ᾱ kăllĭ́ā	κᾰλλῐ́αι kăllĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Noun

κᾰλλῐ́ᾱς • (kăllĭ́ās)

accusative plural of κᾰλλῐ́ης (kăllĭ́ēs)

References

“καλλίας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
καλλίας 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