Εὐρυκλῆς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From εὐρῠ́ς (eurús, “broad”) +‎ -κλῆς (-klês, “fame”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /eu̯.ry.klɛ̂ːs/ → /e.βryˈklis/ → /e.vriˈklis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /eu̯.ry.klɛ̂ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ew.ryˈkle̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.βryˈklis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.vryˈklis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.vriˈklis/

Proper noun

Εὐρῠκλῆς • (Euruklês) m (genitive Εὐρῠκλέους); third declension

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Eurycles

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Εὐρῠκλῆς; τοῦ Εὐρῠκλέους (contracted, Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Εὐρῠκλῆς ho Euruklês
Genitive	τοῦ Εὐρῠκλέους toû Eurukléous
Dative	τῷ Εὐρῠκλεῖ tôi Eurukleî
Accusative	τὸν Εὐρῠκλέᾱ tòn Eurukléā
Vocative	Εὐρῠ́κλεις Eurúkleis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• Εὐρῠ́κλειᾰ (Eurúkleia)

Descendants

• Greek: Ευρυκλής (Evryklís)
• → Latin: Euryclēs

References

• “Εὐρυκλῆς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,010