ἘΛΕΥΣΙΝΙΩΝ, ἐλευσινιων
ELEUSINIŌN, eleusiniōn
Sounds Like: eh-lew-SEE-nee-ohn
Translations: (of) Eleusinians, (of) the Eleusinians
From the root: ἘΛΕΥΣΙΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun
Explanation: This word refers to something or someone from Eleusis, an ancient city in Attica, Greece, famous for the Eleusinian Mysteries. As a genitive plural, it indicates possession or origin, meaning 'of the Eleusinians' or 'belonging to the Eleusinians'. It can function as an adjective modifying a plural noun (e.g., 'the Eleusinian citizens') or as a noun itself referring to the people of Eleusis.
Inflection: Plural, Genitive, Masculine or Feminine
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 14 — 8:153
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΛΕΥΣΙΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἘΛΕΥΣΙΝΙ — to Eleusis, in Eleusis
- ἘΛΕΥΣΙΝΙΟΥ — of Eleusis, Eleusinian
- ἘΛΕΥΣΙΣ — coming, a coming, arrival, an arrival
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