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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₁eh₁tr̥, from *h₁eh₁t- (“to breathe”) + *-r̥ (r/n-stem suffix). Cognates include Latin uterus, Old Irish inathar, and Old English ǣdre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̂ː.tor/ → /ˈi.tor/ → /ˈi.tor/
Noun
ἦτορ • (êtor) n (genitive ἤτορος); third declension
- (Epic) the heart, as the seat of life, passion, desire, etc.
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Further reading
- “ἦτορ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἦτορ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἦτορ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἦτορ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἦτορ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ἦτορ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter