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say it: HEE-lee-ahs
helios is a noun meaning "(Greek mythology) ancient god of the sun; drove his chariot across the sky each day; identified with Roman Sol". It is pronounced /ˈhiliˌɑs/ — HEE-lee-ahs. It carries one recorded sense.
(Greek mythology) ancient god of the sun; drove his chariot across the sky each day; identified with Roman Sol
Greek mythology
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for helios come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.