Παλλάς

See also: Πάλλας

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Likely derived from πάλλω (pállō), meaning "to brandish", given to Athena as an epithet of "she who brandishes" a spear.[1]

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Παλλάς • (Pallás) f (genitive Παλλάδος); third declension

  1. Pallas (Athena)
  2. Pallas, daughter of Triton

Usage notes

Παλλάς (Pallás) is feminine and uses the third declension stem Παλλάδ-. The similarly-spelt name Πάλλας (Pállas) is masculine and uses the different third declension stem Πάλλαντ-.

Inflection
Third declension of ἡ Πᾰλλᾰ́ς; τῆς Πᾰλλᾰ́δος (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Πᾰλλᾰ́ς
hē Pallás
Genitive τῆς Πᾰλλᾰ́δος
tês Palládos
Dative τῇ Πᾰλλᾰ́δῐ
têi Palládi
Accusative τὴν Πᾰλλᾰ́δᾰ
tḕn Palláda
Vocative Πᾰλλᾰ́ς
Pallás
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
  • Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms
  • Παλλάδιον (Palládion)

Descendants
  • Greek: Παλλάδα (Palláda)

References
  1. “Παλλάς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • “Παλλάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Παλλάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “Παλλάς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,003
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