ἑτοῖμος

• ἕτοιμος (hétoimos) — Attic

No etymology. Has been compared to ἔτυμος (étumos, “true”), ἐτός (etós, “true”), but this is not very convincing. Kuiper derives the word from a locative *ἑτοῖ (*hetoî) (+ a suffix -μος (-mos)) to an unattested *ἑτος (*hetos), an alternate form of ἐτός (etós, “in vain, useless”), thus "being in the useless". This is semantically strange and formally ad hoc.^[1]

ἑτοῖμος • (hetoîmos) m or f (neuter ἑτοῖμον); second declension

1. at hand, ready, prepared
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.425
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 66
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1079
   • 1 CE – 200 CE, Aelius Herodianus, On Peculiar Style 2.938
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.453
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 6.12
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.119
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.123
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 13.63
   • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Cyclops 357
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.31
   • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 72C
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.11
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.3
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, To Philip 96
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 14.3
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 5.3.57
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.6.16
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Prognostics 24
   • 341 BCE – 270 BCE, Epicurus, Letters 3.62
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 22.61
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 2.34.2
   • 55 CE – 56 CE, Paul the Apostle, Second Epistle to the Corinthians 10:6
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 448
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.20
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.9
   1. (of the future) sure to come, certain
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.96
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 66
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.425
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.706C
      • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 567A
      • 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 86
      • 110 CE – 180 CE, Pausanias Periegeta, Graeciae Descriptio 2.23.6
   2. (of the past) carried into effect, realised, feasible
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.53
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 8.384
2. (of persons) ready, active, zealous
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 842
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 4.16
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.96
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 4.5.12
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 4.74
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.70
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 791
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 813
   • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 264
   • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, On the Choreutes 23
   • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 341
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.61
   • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 207B
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1079
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.10
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.45
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.86
   1. (of the mind) ready, bold
      • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 458
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.123
      • 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 1106
      • 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Heroicus 8.1
      • 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 7.14
3. (adverbial)
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.80
   • 380 BCE – 318 BCE, Demades, Collected Works 4
   • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 161
   • New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 21:13
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 2.5.2
   • 390 BCE, Plato, Hippias Major 300C
   • 4th century BC, Isaeus, Nicostratus 14
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 290A

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• “ἑτοῖμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἑτοῖμος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἑτοῖμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἑτοῖμος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ἑτοῖμος”, 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.
  • alert idem, page 22.
  • prepared idem, page 635.
  • prompt idem, page 653.
  • ready idem, page 675.
  • willing idem, page 979.
  • zealous idem, page 997.