Ἰλλυριός

See also: Ἰλλύριος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Ἰλλῠ́ρῐος (Illúrios)

Etymology

Of obscure origin, but possibly from a conjectural Illyrian root *is-lo (“living”), though the sense is uncertain. Another theory derives it from *ilur (“snake, sea snake”), of Pre-Indo-European origin (Pre-Greek/substrate).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /il.ly.ri.ós/ → /il.ly.riˈos/ → /i.li.riˈos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /il.ly.ri.ós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /il.ly.riˈos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /il.ly.riˈos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /il.ly.riˈos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.li.riˈos/

Noun

Ἰλλῠρῐός • (Illuriós) m (genitive Ἰλλῠρῐοῦ); second declension

1. an Illyrian
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.196
   • 90 CE – 168 CE, Ptolemy, Geography 2.16.1
   • 95 CE – 165 CE, Appian, Illyrian Wars 6
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 601
   • New Testament, Epistle to the Romans 15:19
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.125.1
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, First Philippic 48.4
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Alexander the Great 11.6.4

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Ἰλλῠρῐός; τοῦ Ἰλλῠρῐοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ Ἰλλῠρῐός ho Illuriós	τὼ Ἰλλῠρῐώ tṑ Illuriṓ	οἱ Ἰλλῠρῐοί hoi Illurioí
Genitive	τοῦ Ἰλλῠρῐοῦ toû Illurioû	τοῖν Ἰλλῠρῐοῖν toîn Illurioîn	τῶν Ἰλλῠρῐῶν tôn Illuriôn
Dative	τῷ Ἰλλῠρῐῷ tôi Illuriôi	τοῖν Ἰλλῠρῐοῖν toîn Illurioîn	τοῖς Ἰλλῠρῐοῖς toîs Illurioîs
Accusative	τὸν Ἰλλῠρῐόν tòn Illurión	τὼ Ἰλλῠρῐώ tṑ Illuriṓ	τοὺς Ἰλλῠρῐούς toùs Illurioús
Vocative	Ἰλλῠρῐέ Illurié	Ἰλλῠρῐώ Illuriṓ	Ἰλλῠρῐοί Illurioí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ἰλλῠρῐ́ζω (Illurízō)
• Ἰλλῠρῐκή (Illurikḗ)
• Ἰλλῠρῐκόν (Illurikón)
• Ἰλλῠρῐκός (Illurikós)
• Ἰλλῠρῐ́ς (Illurís)
• Ἰλλῠρῐστῐ́ (Illuristí)
• Ἰλλῠρῐ́ᾱ (Illuríā)

 

Descendants

• Greek: Ιλλυριός (Illyriós)
• Latin: Illyrius

Further reading

• “Ἰλλυριοί”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,013