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Eleian

Eleian is the alternative form of Elean.

Meaning of Elean

Adjective

Elean (comparative more Elean, superlative most Elean)

  1. Of or relating to Elis or Eleia in Ancient Greece.
    • 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.1980, Leonard Robert Palmer, The Greek language, page 96

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Forms of Eleian

Adjective
comparativemore Eleian
superlativemost Eleian
Noun
pluralEleians

Questions about Eleian

What is Eleian the alternative form of?
Eleian is the alternative form of Elean.

Words near Eleian in the dictionary

  1. elegize
  2. elegized
  3. elegizes
  4. elegizing
  5. elegy
  6. Eleian
  7. Eleians
  8. eleidin
  9. Eleima
  10. Elejalde syndrome
  11. Elektra

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