ἅμιλλα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, the ending in "-ιλλ-" points to a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /há.mil.la/ → /ˈa.mil.la/ → /ˈa.mi.la/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /há.mil.la/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)a.mil.la/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.mil.la/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.mil.la/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈa.mi.la/

Noun

ἅμιλλα • (hámilla) f (genitive ἁμίλλης); first declension

1. competition, contest, trial
2. face-off, confrontation, dispute
3. struggle, fight, conflict
4. sporting activity, game, race

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἅμιλλᾰ; τῆς ἁμίλλης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἅμιλλᾰ hē hámilla	τὼ ἁμίλλᾱ tṑ hamíllā	αἱ ἅμιλλαι hai hámillai
Genitive	τῆς ἁμίλλης tês hamíllēs	τοῖν ἁμίλλαιν toîn hamíllain	τῶν ἁμιλλῶν tôn hamillôn
Dative	τῇ ἁμίλλῃ têi hamíllēi	τοῖν ἁμίλλαιν toîn hamíllain	ταῖς ἁμίλλαις taîs hamíllais
Accusative	τὴν ἅμιλλᾰν tḕn hámillan	τὼ ἁμίλλᾱ tṑ hamíllā	τᾱ̀ς ἁμίλλᾱς tā̀s hamíllās
Vocative	ἅμιλλᾰ hámilla	ἁμίλλᾱ hamíllā	ἅμιλλαι hámillai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἁμιλλάομαι (hamilláomai)
• ἁμίλλημα (hamíllēma)
• ἁμιλλητήρ (hamillētḗr)
• ἁμιλλητήριος (hamillētḗrios)
• ἁμιλλητικός (hamillētikós)

 

Descendants

• Greek: άμιλλα (ámilla)

Further reading

• “ἅμιλλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἅμιλλα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἅμιλλα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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