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Ancient Greek
Etymology
No etymology. Being in the same semantic field of δοῦλος (doûlos), Beekes does not dismiss a Pre-Greek, in view, also, of the suffix -ῑθ-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /é.riː.tʰos/ → /ˈe.ri.θos/ → /ˈe.ri.θos/
Noun
ἔρῑθος • (érīthos) m or f (genitive ἐρῑ́θου); second declension
- day laborer, hired servant
- mower, reaper, sheaf-binder
- spinster, weaver, worker in wool
- (figuratively) servant, minister
Inflection
ὁ, ἡ ἔρῑθος
ho, hē érīthos
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τὼ ἐρῑ́θω
tṑ erī́thō
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οἱ, αἱ ἔρῑθοι
hoi, hai érīthoi
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τοῦ, τῆς ἐρῑ́θου
toû, tês erī́thou
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τοῖν ἐρῑ́θοιν
toîn erī́thoin
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τῶν ἐρῑ́θων
tôn erī́thōn
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τῷ, τῇ ἐρῑ́θῳ
tôi, têi erī́thōi
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τοῖν ἐρῑ́θοιν
toîn erī́thoin
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τοῖς, ταῖς ἐρῑ́θοις
toîs, taîs erī́thois
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τὸν, τὴν ἔρῑθον
tòn, tḕn érīthon
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τὼ ἐρῑ́θω
tṑ erī́thō
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τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς ἐρῑ́θους
toùs, tā̀s erī́thous
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ἔρῑθε
érīthe
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ἐρῑ́θω
erī́thō
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ἔρῑθοι
érīthoi
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “ἔριθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἔριθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἔριθος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἔριθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἔριθος 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) “ἔρῑθος”, 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