ἔριθος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

No etymology. Being in the same semantic field of δοῦλος (doûlos), Beekes does not dismiss a Pre-Greek, in view, also, of the suffix -ῑθ-.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

ἔρῑθος • (érīthos) m or f (genitive ἐρῑ́θου); second declension

  1. day laborer, hired servant
  2. mower, reaper, sheaf-binder
  3. spinster, weaver, worker in wool
  4. (figuratively) servant, minister

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ, ἡ ἔρῑθος; τοῦ, τῆς ἐρῑ́θου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ, ἡ ἔρῑθος
ho, hē érīthos		 τὼ ἐρῑ́θω
tṑ erī́thō		 οἱ, αἱ ἔρῑθοι
hoi, hai érīthoi
Genitive τοῦ, τῆς ἐρῑ́θου
toû, tês erī́thou		 τοῖν ἐρῑ́θοιν
toîn erī́thoin		 τῶν ἐρῑ́θων
tôn erī́thōn
Dative τῷ, τῇ ἐρῑ́θῳ
tôi, têi erī́thōi		 τοῖν ἐρῑ́θοιν
toîn erī́thoin		 τοῖς, ταῖς ἐρῑ́θοις
toîs, taîs erī́thois
Accusative τὸν, τὴν ἔρῑθον
tòn, tḕn érīthon		 τὼ ἐρῑ́θω
tṑ erī́thō		 τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς ἐρῑ́θους
toùs, tā̀s erī́thous
Vocative ἔρῑθε
érīthe		 ἐρῑ́θω
erī́thō		 ἔρῑθοι
érīthoi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • ἐρῑθείᾱ (erītheíā)
  • ἐρῑθεύομαι (erītheúomai)
  • ἐρῑθευτός (erītheutós)
  • ἐρῑθᾰκῐ́ς (erīthakís)
  • σῠνέρῑθος (sunérīthos)
  • φῐλέρῑθος (philérīthos)

Further reading
  • “ἔριθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ἔριθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “ἔριθος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • ἔριθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • ἔριθος 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) “ἔρῑθος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 458
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