Ἐρεχθεύς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐρέχθω (erékhthō, “rend, break”) + -εύς (-eús).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.rekʰ.tʰěu̯s/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /e.rekʰˈtʰews/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /e.rexˈθeɸs/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /e.rexˈθefs/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /e.rexˈθefs/
Proper noun
Ἐρεχθεύς • (Erekhtheús) m (genitive Ἐρεχθέως); third declension
- a male given name, equivalent to English Erechtheus
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ Ἐρεχθεύς ho Erekhtheús | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Ἐρεχθέως toû Erekhthéōs | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Ἐρεχθεῖ tôi Erekhtheî | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Ἐρεχθέᾱ tòn Erekhthéā | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Ἐρεχθεῦ Erekhtheû | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Ἐρεχθείδης (Erekhtheídēs)
Descendants
- Greek: Ερεχθεύς (Erechthéfs)
- → Latin: Erechtheus
References
- “Ἐρεχθεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ἐρεχθεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Ἐρεχθεύς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- “Ἐρεχθεύς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,010
- Ἐρεχθεύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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