Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Αἵδης ‎(Haídēs) Attic
• Ἀΐδης ‎(Aḯdēs) Homeric
• Ἀΐδᾱς ‎(Aḯdās) Doric

Proper noun

ᾍδης • ‎(Hā́idēs) m ‎(genitive ᾍδου); first declension (Attic)

1. Hades, the Greek god of the underworld
2. Hades, the realm of the dead
3. the grave, death
4. ****

Usage notes

The personal name rarely takes a definite article.

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: Άδης ‎(Ádis)
• Latin: Hades

References

• ᾍδης in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ᾍδης in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ᾍδης» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «ᾍδης» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G86”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • below idem, page 73.
  • death idem, page 198.
  • Death idem, page 1008.
  • Hades idem, page 1011.
  • **** idem, page 395.
  • **** idem, page 1012.
  • infernal idem, page 437.
  • lower idem, page 502.
  • nether idem, page 556.
  • shade idem, page 760.
  • under idem, page 912.
  • world idem, page 989.

1. ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “Ἀΐδης, -αο [m.]”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 34