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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Recalling Messenian τράγος (trágos, “wild fig-tree”) and Latin caprificus (“wild fig-tree”), Prellwitz compared an old word for "billy-goat", which is also found in ἔριφος (ériphos, “kid, young goat”). According to Chantraine and Schwyzer, however, the word is Pre-Greek. According to Blažek, it is Hurrian 𒄑𒂊𒊑𒅎𒁉 (GIŠe-ri-im-bi /erimbi/), 𒄑𒂊𒊑𒁉 (GIŠe-ri-bi /eribi/, “cedar”), suffixed from Akkadian 𒄑𒂞 (GIŠERIN /erēnu, erinnu/, “cedar”), from Sumerian 𒄑𒂞 (GIŠERIN /eren/).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.riː.ne.ós/ → /e.ri.neˈos/ → /e.ri.neˈos/
Noun
ἐρῑνεός • (erīneós) m (genitive ἐρῑνεοῦ); second declension
- wild fig-tree (Ficus carica)
- Synonym: τρᾰ́γος (trágos)
Inflection
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Further reading
- “ἐρινεός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐρινεός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἐρινεός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἐρινεός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐρινεός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἐρῑνεός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 458
- Blažek, Václav (2014) “Etymologizing ‘unetymologizable’ Greek dendronyms”, in Graeco-Latina Brunensia, volume 19, number 1, page 43