ἤλιθα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Related to ἠλεός (ēleós, “astray, distraught, crazed”),[1] and based on the suffix -ιθ- (-ith-), from Pre-Greek.[2]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɛ̌ː.li.tʰa/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈe̝.li.tʰa/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈi.li.θa/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈi.li.θa/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.li.θa/
Adverb
ἤλῐθᾰ • (ḗlĭthă)
Derived terms
- ἠλίθιος (ēlíthios)
Descendants
- Greek: ηλίθιος (ilíthios)
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἤλιθα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 515
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἠλεός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 514
Further reading
- “ἤλιθα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἤλιθα in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἤλιθα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ἤλιθα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἤλιθα, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011