Ancient Greek

Proper noun

Ἑλλήσποντος • ‎(****ḗspontos) m ‎(genitive Ἑλλησπόντου); second declension

1. the Hellespont, later called the Dardanelles

Inflection

Derived terms

• Ἑλλησπόντιος ‎(****ēspóntios)
• Ἑλλησποντικός ‎(****ēspontikós)
• Ἑλλησποντίς ‎(****ēspontís)

Descendants

• English: Hellespont
• Greek: Ελλήσποντος ‎(Ellíspontos)
• Latin: Hellespontus

References

• Ἑλλήσποντος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ἑλλήσποντος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Ἑλλήσποντος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «Ἑλλήσποντος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,012