Elean
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Elean (comparative more Elean, superlative most Elean)
- Of or relating to Elis or Eleia in Ancient Greece.
- 1980, Leonard Robert Palmer, The Greek language, page 96:
- This distribution has puzzled grammarians, but the Iliadic examples are all from Nestor's account of the Elean war. The aberrant spelling must date from after the alleged metagrammatism.
Noun
[edit]Elean (plural Eleans)
- A native or inhabitant of Elis or Eleia in Ancient Greece.