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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *éuros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wéros (“width, breadth, expanse, space”) (compare Sanskrit वरस् (váras)), from the root *h₁wer(H)-. Related to εὐρύς (eurús).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /êu̯.ros/ → /ˈe.βros/ → /ˈe.vros/
Noun
εὖρος • (eûros) n (genitive εὔρους); third declension
- width, breadth
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Further reading
- Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) “*h₁u̯erH-”, in Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pages 250–251
- “εὖρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “εὖρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “εὖρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- εὖρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- “εὖρος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011