εἶδος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *wéidos, from Proto-Indo-European *wéydos (“seeing, image”), from *weyd- (“to see”). Cognate to Sanskrit वेदस् (védas), Proto-Slavic *vidъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

εἶδος • (eîdos) n (genitive εἴδους or εἴδεος); third declension

1. That which is seen: form, image, shape
2. appearance, look, beauty (comeliness)
3. sight
4. fashion, sort, kind
5. species
6. wares, goods

Inflection

Derived terms

• -ειδής (-eidḗs)
• εἰδύλλιον (eidúllion)
• εἴδωλον (eídōlon)
• εἰδητῐκός (eidētikós)

Descendants

• → Greek: είδος (eídos)
• English: eidos

Further reading

• “εἶδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “εἶδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “εἶδος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• εἶδος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• εἶδος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• εἶδος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “εἶδος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1491 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • abstract idem, page 4.
  • appearance idem, page 35.
  • aspect idem, page 44.
  • branch idem, page 93.
  • class idem, page 135.
  • fashion idem, page 308.
  • figure idem, page 319.
  • form idem, page 338.
  • idea idem, page 413.
  • image idem, page 416.
  • kind idem, page 469.
  • manner idem, page 512.
  • pattern idem, page 599.
  • personal idem, page 608.
  • set idem, page 756.
  • shape idem, page 762.
  • sort idem, page 795.
  • species idem, page 799.
  • stature idem, page 813.
  • type idem, page 904.
  • variety idem, page 944.
• εἶδος - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.