ἔτυμος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From or closely related to ἐτεός (eteós, “true”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /é.ty.mos/ → /ˈe.ty.mos/ → /ˈe.ti.mos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /é.ty.mos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ty.mos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ty.mos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ty.mos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ti.mos/

Adjective

ἔτῠμος • (étumos) m (feminine ἐτύμη, neuter ἔτῠμον); first/second declension

1. true, real, sure

Inflection

First and second declension of ἔτῠμος; ἐτῠ́μη; ἔτῠμον (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ἔτῠμος étumos	ἐτῠ́μη etúmē	ἔτῠμον étumon		ἐτῠ́μω etúmō	ἐτῠ́μᾱ etúmā	ἐτῠ́μω etúmō		ἔτῠμοι étumoi	ἔτῠμαι étumai	ἔτῠμᾰ étuma
Genitive		ἐτῠ́μου etúmou	ἐτῠ́μης etúmēs	ἐτῠ́μου etúmou		ἐτῠ́μοιν etúmoin	ἐτῠ́μαιν etúmain	ἐτῠ́μοιν etúmoin		ἐτῠ́μων etúmōn	ἐτῠ́μων etúmōn	ἐτῠ́μων etúmōn
Dative		ἐτῠ́μῳ etúmōi	ἐτῠ́μῃ etúmēi	ἐτῠ́μῳ etúmōi		ἐτῠ́μοιν etúmoin	ἐτῠ́μαιν etúmain	ἐτῠ́μοιν etúmoin		ἐτῠ́μοις etúmois	ἐτῠ́μαις etúmais	ἐτῠ́μοις etúmois
Accusative		ἔτῠμον étumon	ἐτῠ́μην etúmēn	ἔτῠμον étumon		ἐτῠ́μω etúmō	ἐτῠ́μᾱ etúmā	ἐτῠ́μω etúmō		ἐτῠ́μους etúmous	ἐτῠ́μᾱς etúmās	ἔτῠμᾰ étuma
Vocative		ἔτῠμε étume	ἐτῠ́μη etúmē	ἔτῠμον étumon		ἐτῠ́μω etúmō	ἐτῠ́μᾱ etúmā	ἐτῠ́μω etúmō		ἔτῠμοι étumoi	ἔτῠμαι étumai	ἔτῠμᾰ étuma
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		ἐτῠ́μως etúmōs				ἐτῠμώτερος etumṓteros				ἐτῠμώτᾰτος etumṓtatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• ἀληθής (alēthḗs)

Derived terms

• ἔτῠμον (étumon)
• ἐτήτυμος (etḗtumos)
• ἐτυμότης (etumótēs)

Further reading

• “ἔτυμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἔτυμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἔτυμος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἔτυμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἔτυμος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ἔτυμος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • actual idem, page 10.
  • true idem, page 898.