Ἐρύμανθος

See also: Ερύμανθος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The name, Erymanthos, appears as o-ru-ma-te in a Linear B tablet from Pylos (Py Cn 3) listing members of a coast-watching unit, described in the Glossary of Ventris and Chadwick, Documents in Mycenaean Greek. The person is believed to have been named after his native region. Leonard Palmer proposed that this class of name, bearing the infix -nth-, derives from Luwian, and that the Luwians, an Anatolian-speaking people, preceded the Greeks in the region. This strongest and only theory of this class of name is re-presented by Fred C. Woodhuizen in The Luwians of Western Anatolia. Theorists of this school can etymologize the majority of the names in the Anatolian languages, Anatolian being Indo-European; however, o-ru-ma-te has not yet been credibly further etymologized.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.rý.man.tʰos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /eˈry.man.tʰos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eˈry.man.θos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /eˈry.man.θos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /eˈri.man.θos/

Proper noun

Ἐρῠ́μανθος • (Erúmanthos) m (genitive Ἐρῠμάνθου); second declension

Mount Erymanthus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Ἐρῠ́μανθος; τοῦ Ἐρῠμάνθου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ἐρῠ́μανθος ho Erúmanthos
Genitive	τοῦ Ἐρῠμάνθου toû Erumánthou
Dative	τῷ Ἐρῠμάνθῳ tôi Erumánthōi
Accusative	τὸν Ἐρῠ́μανθον tòn Erúmanthon
Vocative	Ἐρῠ́μανθε Erúmanthe
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Ἐρῠμάνθῐος (Erumánthios)

Descendants

Greek: Ερύμανθος (Erýmanthos)
Latin: Erymanthus

References

“Ἐρύμανθος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,010