εὐετηρία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

εὐ- (eu-, “good”) +‎ ἔτος (étos, “year”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /eu̯.e.tɛː.rí.aː/ → /e.βe.tiˈri.a/ → /e.ve.tiˈri.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /eu̯.e.tɛː.rí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.we.te̝ˈri.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.βe.tiˈri.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.ve.tiˈri.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.ve.tiˈri.a/

Noun

εὐετηρῐ́ᾱ • (euetēríā) f (genitive εὐετηρῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. a good season
2. thriving
3. prosperity, plenty

Declension

First declension of ἡ εὐετηρῐ́ᾱ; τῆς εὐετηρῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ εὐετηρῐ́ᾱ hē euetēríā	τὼ εὐετηρῐ́ᾱ tṑ euetēríā	αἱ εὐετηρῐ́αι hai euetēríai
Genitive	τῆς εὐετηρῐ́ᾱς tês euetēríās	τοῖν εὐετηρῐ́αιν toîn euetēríain	τῶν εὐετηρῐῶν tôn euetēriôn
Dative	τῇ εὐετηρῐ́ᾳ têi euetēríāi	τοῖν εὐετηρῐ́αιν toîn euetēríain	ταῖς εὐετηρῐ́αις taîs euetēríais
Accusative	τὴν εὐετηρῐ́ᾱν tḕn euetēríān	τὼ εὐετηρῐ́ᾱ tṑ euetēríā	τᾱ̀ς εὐετηρῐ́ᾱς tā̀s euetēríās
Vocative	εὐετηρῐ́ᾱ euetēríā	εὐετηρῐ́ᾱ euetēríā	εὐετηρῐ́αι euetēríai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• κᾰλοκαιρῐ́ᾱ f (kalokairíā)

Further reading

• “εὐετηρία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “εὐετηρία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• εὐετηρία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Pape, Wilhelm, Benseler, Gustav Eduard (1884) “εὐετηρία”, in Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn