ἔριθος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

No etymology. Being in the same semantic field of δοῦλος (doûlos), Beekes does not dismiss a Pre-Greek, in view, also, of the suffix -ῑθ-.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /é.riː.tʰos/ → /ˈe.ri.θos/ → /ˈe.ri.θos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /é.riː.tʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ri.tʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ri.θos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ri.θos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ri.θos/

Noun

ἔρῑθος • (érīthos) m or f (genitive ἐρῑ́θου); second declension

1. day laborer, hired servant
2. mower, reaper, sheaf-binder
3. spinster, weaver, worker in wool
4. (figuratively) servant, minister

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ, ἡ ἔρῑθος; τοῦ, τῆς ἐρῑ́θου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ ἔρῑθος ho, hē érīthos	τὼ ἐρῑ́θω tṑ erī́thō	οἱ, αἱ ἔρῑθοι hoi, hai érīthoi
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς ἐρῑ́θου toû, tês erī́thou	τοῖν ἐρῑ́θοιν toîn erī́thoin	τῶν ἐρῑ́θων tôn erī́thōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ ἐρῑ́θῳ tôi, têi erī́thōi	τοῖν ἐρῑ́θοιν toîn erī́thoin	τοῖς, ταῖς ἐρῑ́θοις toîs, taîs erī́thois
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν ἔρῑθον tòn, tḕn érīthon	τὼ ἐρῑ́θω tṑ erī́thō	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς ἐρῑ́θους toùs, tā̀s erī́thous
Vocative	ἔρῑθε érīthe	ἐρῑ́θω erī́thō	ἔρῑθοι érīthoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἐρῑθείᾱ (erītheíā)
• ἐρῑθεύομαι (erītheúomai)
• ἐρῑθευτός (erītheutós)
• ἐρῑθᾰκῐ́ς (erīthakís)
• σῠνέρῑθος (sunérīthos)
• φῐλέρῑθος (philérīthos)

 

Further reading

• “ἔριθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἔριθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἔριθος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἔριθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἔριθος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἔρῑθος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 458