Εὐρώτας
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Perhaps derived from εὐρώς (eurṓs, “mold”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /eu̯.rɔ̌ː.taːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ewˈro.tas/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /eˈβro.tas/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /eˈvro.tas/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /eˈvro.tas/
Proper noun
Εὐρώτᾱς • (Eurṓtās) m (genitive Εὐρώτᾱ); first declension
- (mythological characters) Eurotas, a man in Greek mythology
- Evrotas (a river in Laconia, Greece, said to be named after the man)
- The external female genitalia.
Inflection
Descendants
- Greek: Ευρώτας (Evrótas)
- → Latin: Eurōtās
- Georgian: ევროტასი (evroṭasi)
- Italian: Eurota
- Russian: Еврот (Jevrot), Эврот (Evrot)
Further reading
- “Εὐρώτας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Εὐρώτας”, 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,010
- “Εὐρώτας”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011