Ἠριδανός

See also: Ηριδανός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Composed of ῥέω (rhéō, “I flow, run”) + Proto-Indo-European *deh₂nu (“river”), from *dʰen- (“run, flow”).[1]

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Ἠρῐδᾰνός • (Ēridanós) m (genitive Ἠρῐδᾰνοῦ); second declension

  1. Eridanus, former name of the River Po
  2. Eridanus, a river (now underground) flowing through Athens

Declension
Second declension of ὁ Ἠρῐδᾰνός; τοῦ Ἠρῐδᾰνοῦ (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Ἠρῐδᾰνός
ho Ēridanós
Genitive τοῦ Ἠρῐδᾰνοῦ
toû Ēridanoû
Dative τῷ Ἠρῐδᾰνῷ
tôi Ēridanôi
Accusative τὸν Ἠρῐδᾰνόν
tòn Ēridanón
Vocative Ἠρῐδᾰνέ
Ēridané
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

Descendants
  • Greek: Ηριδανός (Iridanós)
  • Latin: Ēridanus

References
  • “Ἠρῐδᾰνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Ἠριδανός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,010
  1. History of Herodotus, Volume 2, edited by John Murray (1862), p. 416

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