κέλευθος

Probably from the same root as κέλομαι (kélomai) and κελεύω (keleúō, “to urge, command”); however, the -θ- is difficult to explain morphologically. If so, then cognate with Lithuanian kẽlias and Latvian ceļš (“road, way”) and with Albanian kaloj (“to pass, walk by”). Older theories attempted to connect the word to the root *ἐλεύθ- (*eleúth-) (for which see *ἐλεύθω (*eleúthō, “Ι come”) for more) in order to explain the -θ-; however, the initial κ- then becomes unexplained.^[1]

κέλευθος • (kéleuthos) f (genitive κελεύθου); second declension; plural usually neuter κέλευθᾰ

1. (poetic) road, way, path

Neuter plural forms

• ἱπποκέλευθος (hippokéleuthos)

• ἀκόλουθος (akólouthos)

• “κέλευθος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κέλευθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κέλευθος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “κέλευθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • coming idem, page 146.
  • course idem, page 178.
  • distance idem, page 240.
  • gait idem, page 352.
  • going idem, page 365.
  • journey idem, page 464.
  • passage idem, page 597.
  • path idem, page 598.
  • road idem, page 718.
  • track idem, page 885.
  • walk idem, page 960.
  • way idem, page 968.