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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *ewítʰewos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂. Cognates include Sanskrit विधवा (vidhávā), Latin vidua and Old English widuwe (English widow).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛː.í.tʰe.os/ → /iˈi.θe.os/ → /iˈi.θe.os/
Noun
ἠῐ̈́θεος • (ēḯtheos) m (genitive ἠῐ̈θέου); second declension
- unmarried young man, bachelor
- one who is unmarried
Inflection
See also
- ἠϊθέη (ēïthéē, “unmarried young woman”)
- παρθένος (parthénos, “maid, virgin”)
Further reading
- “ἠΐθεος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἠΐθεος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἠΐθεος 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) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN