ἁλός | Ancient Greek Analysis with Conjugation Tables

Definition

Salt; also the sea (especially in poetic or elevated usage). In the plural ἅλες, “salt” or “the sea-waters.”

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Grammatical Analysis

"ἁλός"

Case: genitive

Number: singular

Gender: neuter

Declension: 3rd declension (consonant-stem); contracted genitive in -ός

Lemma candidates: ['ἅλς (neut.)']

Notes: ἁλός is the genitive singular of neuter ἅλς (‘salt’; also ‘sea’ in some uses). The form ἁ- reflects rough breathing; the genitive ending -ός is the contracted outcome (< *-εος) typical of some 3rd-declension stems.

Related Forms of ἅλς

5 forms discovered

Other inflected forms of this word that have been analyzed:

ἅλες nominative or accusative or vocative, plural, masc... ἅλας nominative or accusative, singular, neuter ἄλας nominative or accusative, singular, neuter ἁλα accusative, singular, neuter ἁλὶ dative, singular, feminine

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