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ἅλα (hala)

ἅλα is an Ancient Greek form of ἅλς, meaning “salt; the sea”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 144 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.236: εὖτʼ ἂν ἄγῃ χρέος ἄνδρας ὑπεὶρ ἅλα ναυτίλλεσθαι,

Euripides, Bacchae 592: διάδρομα τάδε; Βρόμιος ὅδʼ ἀλα-

Bacchylides, Epinicians 3.34: σὺν εὐπλοκάμοις τʼ ἐπέβαινʼ ἄλα[στον

All forms of ἅλς (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.