ἐρῳδιός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀρῳδιός (arōidiós)
• ῥῳδιός (rhōidiós)

Etymology

The ending is similar to other bird names, like αἰγυπιός (aigupiós), αἰγωλιός (aigōliós) and χαραδριός (kharadriós). The resemblance with Latin ardea (“heron”) and Serbo-Croatian róda (“stork”) cannot be coincidental. According to Beekes, the word could be of origin because of the variants.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.rɔːi̯.di.ós/ → /e.ro.ðiˈos/ → /e.ro.ðiˈos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.rɔːi̯.di.ós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.ro.diˈos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.ro.ðiˈos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.ro.ðiˈos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.ro.ðiˈos/

Noun

ἐρῳδῐός • (erōidiós) m (genitive ἐρῳδῐοῦ); second declension

1. heron (bird of the genus Ardea)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ἐρῳδῐός; τοῦ ἐρῳδῐοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἐρῳδῐός ho erōidiós	τὼ ἐρῳδῐώ tṑ erōidiṓ	οἱ ἐρῳδῐοί hoi erōidioí
Genitive	τοῦ ἐρῳδῐοῦ toû erōidioû	τοῖν ἐρῳδῐοῖν toîn erōidioîn	τῶν ἐρῳδῐῶν tôn erōidiôn
Dative	τῷ ἐρῳδῐῷ tôi erōidiôi	τοῖν ἐρῳδῐοῖν toîn erōidioîn	τοῖς ἐρῳδῐοῖς toîs erōidioîs
Accusative	τὸν ἐρῳδῐόν tòn erōidión	τὼ ἐρῳδῐώ tṑ erōidiṓ	τοὺς ἐρῳδῐούς toùs erōidioús
Vocative	ἐρῳδῐέ erōidié	ἐρῳδῐώ erōidiṓ	ἐρῳδῐοί erōidioí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ἐρῳδιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἐρῳδιός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN