Ἐρέτρια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the root of ἐρέτης (erétēs, “rower”) +‎ -τρῐᾰ (-tria).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.ré.tri.a/ → /eˈre.tri.a/ → /eˈre.tri.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.ré.tri.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /eˈre.tri.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eˈre.tri.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /eˈre.tri.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /eˈre.tri.a/

Proper noun

Ἐρέτρῐᾰ • (Erétria) f (genitive Ἐρετρῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. Eretria

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Ἐρέτρῐᾰ; τῆς Ἐρετρῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ἐρέτρῐᾰ hē Erétria
Genitive	τῆς Ἐρετρῐ́ᾱς tês Eretríās
Dative	τῇ Ἐρετρῐ́ᾳ têi Eretríāi
Accusative	τὴν Ἐρέτρῐᾰν tḕn Erétrian
Vocative	Ἐρέτρῐᾰ Erétria
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ἐρετρῐαῖος (Eretriaîos)
• Ἐρετρῐεύς (Eretrieús)
• Ἐρετρῐκός (Eretrikós)

 

Descendants

• Greek: Ερέτρια (Erétria)
• → Latin: Eretria

Further reading

• “Ἐρέτρια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ἐρέτρια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,010