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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Uncertain. Traditionally grouped together with ἔροτις (érotis, “feast”) and ἑορτή (heortḗ, “feast, festival”), but Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /é.ra.nos/ → /ˈe.ra.nos/ → /ˈe.ra.nos/
Noun
ἔρᾰνος • (éranos) m (genitive ἐρᾰ́νου); second declension
- meal to which each contributed his share
- (in general) feast, festival, banquet
- loan raised by contributions for the benefit of an individual
- favour, service, especially one which brings a return
- permanent association apparently religious in character
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Further reading
- “ἔρανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἔρανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἔρανος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἔρανος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἔρανος 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) “ἔρανος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 449-450