Ἠριδανός

See also: Ηριδανός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Composed of ῥέω (rhéō, “I flow, run”) + Proto-Indo-European *dānu (“river”), from *dʰen- (“run, flow”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɛː.ri.da.nós/ → /i.ri.ðaˈnos/ → /i.ri.ðaˈnos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɛː.ri.da.nós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e̝.ri.daˈnos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.ri.ðaˈnos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.ri.ðaˈnos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.ri.ðaˈnos/

Proper noun

Ἠρῐδᾰνός • (Ēridanós) m (genitive Ἠρῐδᾰνοῦ); second declension

1. Eridanus, former name of the River Po
2. Eridanus, a river (now underground) flowing through Athens

Declension

Second declension of ὁ Ἠρῐδᾰνός; τοῦ Ἠρῐδᾰνοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ἠρῐδᾰνός ho Ēridanós
Genitive	τοῦ Ἠρῐδᾰνοῦ toû Ēridanoû
Dative	τῷ Ἠρῐδᾰνῷ tôi Ēridanôi
Accusative	τὸν Ἠρῐδᾰνόν tòn Ēridanón
Vocative	Ἠρῐδᾰνέ Ēridané
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• (the River Po): Πάδος (Pádos)

Descendants

• Greek: Ηριδανός (Iridanós)
• Latin: Ēridanus
  • Italian: Eridano

References

• “Ἠρῐδᾰνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ἠριδανός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,010

Further reading

• Eridanus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia