Ancient Greek

Noun

ἔλαιον • ‎(élaion) n ‎(genitive ἐλαίου); second declension

1. olive oil, commonly used as an anointing oil
   • Homer, Iliad 10.577

     τὼ δὲ λοεσσαμένω καὶ ἀλειψαμένω λίπ᾽ ἐλαίῳ / δείπνῳ ἐφιζανέτην, […]

     • 1924 translation by A. T. Murray

       But when the twain had bathed and anointed them richly with oil, they sate them down at supper, […]

2. any oily substance
   • Hippocrates, Collected Works 668.30
3. (at Athens) the oil market
   • Menander, Unknown Work 339

Inflection

Related terms

• ἐλαία ‎(elaía)

Descendants

• Greek: λάδι n ‎(ládi)
• Latin: oleum

References

• ἔλαιον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἔλαιον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἔλαιον in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἔλαιον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἔλαιον» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «ἔλαιον» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• ἔλαιον in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G1637”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «ἔλαιον» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • grease idem, page 371.
  • oil idem, page 572.
  • olive oil idem, page 572.
• oil in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911