εἴρερος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unclear. Frisk argues against the connection with Latin servus (“servant, slave”), instead suggesting a basis *ϝερϝερος (*werweros), and connecting the word with Armenian գերեմ (gerem, “to take prisoner”). It is probably not related to εὑρίσκω (heurískō, “to find”), nor to ἀρύω (arúō, “to draw water”), although based on the meaning the word has been compared to Sanskrit ग्रहण (grahaṇa, “capture, seizing”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ěː.re.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈi.re.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈi.re.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈi.re.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.re.ros/
Noun
εἴρερος • (eíreros) m (genitive εἰρέρου); second declension
- slavery, bondage, captivity
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ εἴρερος; τοῦ εἰρέρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ εἴρερος ho eíreros | τὼ εἰρέρω tṑ eirérō | οἱ εἴρεροι hoi eíreroi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ εἰρέρου toû eirérou | τοῖν εἰρέροιν toîn eiréroin | τῶν εἰρέρων tôn eirérōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ εἰρέρῳ tôi eirérōi | τοῖν εἰρέροιν toîn eiréroin | τοῖς εἰρέροις toîs eirérois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν εἴρερον tòn eíreron | τὼ εἰρέρω tṑ eirérō | τοὺς εἰρέρους toùs eirérous | ||||||||||
Vocative | εἴρερε eírere | εἰρέρω eirérō | εἴρεροι eíreroi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “εἴρερος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “εἴρερος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “εἴρερος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- εἴρερος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- εἴρερος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- εἴρερος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN