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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Comparing the word with ἱδρώς (hidrṓs), γέλως (gélōs), ἔρως (érōs), Schwyzer concludes an original s-stem. Furnée takes the alternative form given by Hesychius as proof of Pre-Greek origin, a hypothesis that convinces Beekes.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eu̯.rɔ̌ːs/ → /eˈβros/ → /eˈvros/
Noun
εὐρώς • (eurṓs) m (genitive εὐρῶτος); third declension
- mold, mildew, dank decay
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Further reading
- “εὐρώς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “εὐρώς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- εὐρώς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “εὐρώς”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 484