Εὐήλιος

sunny

Translated by Kenneth Bumbaco27 Sep 2006Vetting: high4 revisions

2 words

[Meaning] clear/pure.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Εὐήλιος· ὁ καθαρός.

Betacode

*eu)h/lios: o( kaqaro/s.

This adjective appears in e.g. Aristophanes (Frogs 242: web address 1) and Euripides (Iphigenia in Tauris 1138: web address 2); see generally LSJ s.v. (web address 3). It is a compound of the prefix eu), 'well', with the noun h(/lios, 'sun'.