ἡλίκος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *yós, like the basic relative pronoun ὅς (hós), + the same suffix as Latin tālis (“such”) and quālis (“[such] as”) + -κός (-kós, adjective suffix). Cf. ἧλιξ (hêlix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hɛː.lí.kos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)e̝ˈli.kos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /iˈli.kos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /iˈli.kos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /iˈli.kos/
Adjective
ἡλῐ́κος • (hēlíkos) m (feminine ἡλῐ́κη, neuter ἡλῐ́κον); first/second declension
- (relative adjective) as big or great as, as old as
- 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 13:
- ἀλλ’ ἐφ’ οἷς ἀδικοῦντά μ’ ἑώρα τὴν πόλιν, οὖσί γε τηλικούτοις ἡλίκα νῦν ἐτραγῴδει καὶ διεξῄει, […]
- all’ eph’ hoîs adikoûntá m’ heṓra tḕn pólin, oûsí ge tēlikoútois hēlíka nûn etragṓidei kaì diexḗiei, […]
- But against whatever wrongs he saw me commit against the city, if they really are as great as he just now dramatized and recounted in detail, […]
- ἀλλ’ ἐφ’ οἷς ἀδικοῦντά μ’ ἑώρα τὴν πόλιν, οὖσί γε τηλικούτοις ἡλίκα νῦν ἐτραγῴδει καὶ διεξῄει, […]
- (indirect interrogative adjective) how big; extraordinarily big or small
- (exclamatory adjective) how big!
Inflection
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
Nominative | ἡλῐ́κος hēlíkos |
ἡλῐ́κη hēlíkē |
ἡλῐ́κον hēlíkon |
ἡλῐ́κω hēlíkō |
ἡλῐ́κᾱ hēlíkā |
ἡλῐ́κω hēlíkō |
ἡλῐ́κοι hēlíkoi |
ἡλῐ́και hēlíkai |
ἡλῐ́κᾰ hēlíka | |||||
Genitive | ἡλῐ́κου hēlíkou |
ἡλῐ́κης hēlíkēs |
ἡλῐ́κου hēlíkou |
ἡλῐ́κοιν hēlíkoin |
ἡλῐ́καιν hēlíkain |
ἡλῐ́κοιν hēlíkoin |
ἡλῐ́κων hēlíkōn |
ἡλῐ́κων hēlíkōn |
ἡλῐ́κων hēlíkōn | |||||
Dative | ἡλῐ́κῳ hēlíkōi |
ἡλῐ́κῃ hēlíkēi |
ἡλῐ́κῳ hēlíkōi |
ἡλῐ́κοιν hēlíkoin |
ἡλῐ́καιν hēlíkain |
ἡλῐ́κοιν hēlíkoin |
ἡλῐ́κοις hēlíkois |
ἡλῐ́καις hēlíkais |
ἡλῐ́κοις hēlíkois | |||||
Accusative | ἡλῐ́κον hēlíkon |
ἡλῐ́κην hēlíkēn |
ἡλῐ́κον hēlíkon |
ἡλῐ́κω hēlíkō |
ἡλῐ́κᾱ hēlíkā |
ἡλῐ́κω hēlíkō |
ἡλῐ́κους hēlíkous |
ἡλῐ́κᾱς hēlíkās |
ἡλῐ́κᾰ hēlíka | |||||
Vocative | ἡλῐ́κε hēlíke |
ἡλῐ́κη hēlíkē |
ἡλῐ́κον hēlíkon |
ἡλῐ́κω hēlíkō |
ἡλῐ́κᾱ hēlíkā |
ἡλῐ́κω hēlíkō |
ἡλῐ́κοι hēlíkoi |
ἡλῐ́και hēlíkai |
ἡλῐ́κᾰ hēlíka | |||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
ἡλῐ́κως hēlíkōs |
ἡλῐκώτερος hēlikṓteros |
ἡλῐκώτᾰτος hēlikṓtatos | ||||||||||||
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See also
Ancient Greek correlatives (edit)
Further reading
- “ἡλίκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἡλίκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- G2245 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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