ελαιων | Ancient Greek Analysis with Conjugation Tables

Definition

Olive oil; by extension, oil used for anointing or as fuel for lamps.

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Grammatical Analysis

"ελαιων"

Case: genitive

Number: plural

Gender: masculine/neuter (ambiguous in this form)

Declension: 2nd declension (-ος/-ον stem; gen. pl. -ων)

Notes: Exact form ελαιων (ἐλαίων with accents) is the genitive plural ending -ων. It can be (a) masculine gen. pl. of ἐλαῖος 'olive-tree' or (b) neuter gen. pl. of ἔλαιον 'olive oil'. Context is required to disambiguate gender/lemma.

Related Forms of ἔλαιον

2 forms discovered

Other inflected forms of this word that have been analyzed:

ελαιον nominative or accusative, singular, neuter ἔλαιον nominative or accusative or vocative, singular, ne...

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