ὑετός

See also: υετός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Nominal formation from ῡ̔́ω (hū́ō, “to rain”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hyː.e.tós/ → /y.eˈtos/ → /i.eˈtos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hyː.e.tós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)y.eˈtos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /y.eˈtos/
• (10^th CE Medieval) IPA^(key): /y.eˈtos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.eˈtos/

Noun

ῡ̔ετός • (hūetós) m (genitive ῡ̔ετοῦ); second declension

1. heavy rain

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ῡ̔ετός; τοῦ ῡ̔ετοῦ (Attic)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	ὁ ῡ̔ετόςho hūetós	τὼ ῡ̔ετώtṑ hūetṓ	οἱ ῡ̔ετοίhoi hūetoí
genitive	τοῦ ῡ̔ετοῦtoû hūetoû	τοῖν ῡ̔ετοῖνtoîn hūetoîn	τῶν ῡ̔ετῶνtôn hūetôn
dative	τῷ ῡ̔ετῷtōî hūetōî	τοῖν ῡ̔ετοῖνtoîn hūetoîn	τοῖς ῡ̔ετοῖςtoîs hūetoîs
accusative	τὸν ῡ̔ετόνtòn hūetón	τὼ ῡ̔ετώtṑ hūetṓ	τοὺς ῡ̔ετούςtoùs hūetoús
vocative	ῡ̔ετέhūeté	ῡ̔ετώhūetṓ	ῡ̔ετοίhūetoí

• This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• ὄμβρος (ómbros)

Descendants

• Greek: υετός (yetós)
• → English: hyeto-

Further reading

• “ὑετός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὑετός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὑετός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• “ὑετός” in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὑετός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Strong, James (1979), “G5205”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • fall idem, page 303.
  • rain idem, page 669.
  • shower idem, page 770.
• ὑετός, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011