ἐρέτης
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁-t-, from *h₁reh₁- (“to row”). Compare also Mycenaean Greek 𐀁𐀩𐀲 (e-re-ta /eretās/).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.ré.tɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /eˈre.te̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /eˈre.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /eˈre.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /eˈre.tis/
Noun
ἐρέτης • (erétēs) m (genitive ἐρέτου); second declension
- (mostly in the plural) rowers
- (in the plural) oars
Declension
First declension of ὁ ἐρέτης; τοῦ ἐρέτου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ἐρέτης ho erétēs | τὼ ἐρέτᾱ tṑ erétā | οἱ ἐρέται hoi erétai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἐρέτου toû erétou | τοῖν ἐρέταιν toîn erétain | τῶν ἐρετῶν tôn eretôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἐρέτῃ tôi erétēi | τοῖν ἐρέταιν toîn erétain | τοῖς ἐρέταις toîs erétais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ἐρέτην tòn erétēn | τὼ ἐρέτᾱ tṑ erétā | τοὺς ἐρέτᾱς toùs erétās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἐρέτᾰ eréta | ἐρέτᾱ erétā | ἐρέται erétai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- αὐτερέτης (auterétēs)
- ἐρέσσω (eréssō)
- ἐρετῐκός (eretikós)
- ἐρετμόν (eretmón)
- Ἐρέτρῐᾰ (Erétria)
- τρῐήρης (triḗrēs)
- ὑπερέτης (huperétēs)
Further reading
- “ἐρέτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐρέτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἐρέτης”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἐρέτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐρέτης 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), “ἐρέτης”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 454