ἀετός
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *ayyetós, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewyetós, from *h₂éwis (“bird”). Cognate with Sanskrit वि (ví), Latin avis, Old Armenian հաւ (haw).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /aː.e.tós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a.eˈtos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.eˈtos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.eˈtos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.eˈtos/
Noun
ᾱ̓ετός • (āetós) m (genitive ᾱ̓ετοῦ); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ᾱ̓ετός ho āetós |
τὼ ᾱ̓ετώ tṑ āetṓ |
οἱ ᾱ̓ετοί hoi āetoí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ᾱ̓ετοῦ toû āetoû |
τοῖν ᾱ̓ετοῖν toîn āetoîn |
τῶν ᾱ̓ετῶν tôn āetôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ᾱ̓ετῷ tôi āetôi |
τοῖν ᾱ̓ετοῖν toîn āetoîn |
τοῖς ᾱ̓ετοῖς toîs āetoîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ᾱ̓ετόν tòn āetón |
τὼ ᾱ̓ετώ tṑ āetṓ |
τοὺς ᾱ̓ετούς toùs āetoús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ᾱ̓ετέ āeté |
ᾱ̓ετώ āetṓ |
ᾱ̓ετοί āetoí | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: αϊτός m (aïtós) / αετός m (aetós, “eagle”), χαρταετός (chartaetós, “kite (toy)”)
- Translingual: Circaetus, Ictinaetus, Gypaetus, Haliaeetus (via ἁλιαίετος (haliaíetos, “osprey”)), Hieraaetus,
- → Samoan: aeto
- → Tokelauan: āeto
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “αἰετός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 35
Further reading
- “ἀετός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀετός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- G105 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- ἀετός in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press