ἔντερον

Neuter substantive of *ἔντερος (*énteros, “inside”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros, from *h₁én (whence also ἐν (en, “in”)) + *-teros (whence also -τερος (-teros, “comparative suffix”)). Cognates include Russian ятро́ (jatró), Sanskrit अन्त्र (ántra, “entrails”), Old Armenian ընդերք (ənderkʻ, “entrails”), and Latin interāneum (“entrails”), whence English entrails.

ἔντερον • (énteron) n (genitive ἐντέρου); second declension

1. (usually in the plural) guts, viscera, intestine, gut, belly, bowel, womb

   Synonyms: ἐγκοίλῐᾰ (enkoília), σπλάγχνον (splánkhnon), χολᾰ́ς (kholás)

2. bag

• Greek: έντερο (éntero)

• “ἔντερον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἔντερον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἔντερον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἔντερον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἔντερον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἔντερον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bowels idem, page 92.
  • entrails idem, page 278.
  • intestines idem, page 453.