ἐνιαυτός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, the etymology is unknown, and he criticizes some of the proposals to date, including Meillet's that the first part is ἔνος (énos, “year”), as in δίενος (díenos, “two years old”), and the second one is from ἰαύω (iaúō).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.ni.au̯.tós/ → /e.ni.aɸˈtos/ → /e.ni.afˈtos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.ni.au̯.tós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.ni.aʍˈtos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.ni.aɸˈtos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.ni.afˈtos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.ni.afˈtos/

Noun

ἐνῐαυτός • (eniautós) m (genitive ἐνῐαυτοῦ); second declension (Epic, Attic, Ionic, Koine)

1. anniversary
2. year

Declension

Second declension of ὁ ἐνῐαυτός; τοῦ ἐνῐαυτοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἐνῐαυτός ho eniautós	τὼ ἐνῐαυτώ tṑ eniautṓ	οἱ ἐνῐαυτοί hoi eniautoí
Genitive	τοῦ ἐνῐαυτοῦ toû eniautoû	τοῖν ἐνῐαυτοῖν toîn eniautoîn	τῶν ἐνῐαυτῶν tôn eniautôn
Dative	τῷ ἐνῐαυτῷ tôi eniautôi	τοῖν ἐνῐαυτοῖν toîn eniautoîn	τοῖς ἐνῐαυτοῖς toîs eniautoîs
Accusative	τὸν ἐνῐαυτόν tòn eniautón	τὼ ἐνῐαυτώ tṑ eniautṓ	τοὺς ἐνῐαυτούς toùs eniautoús
Vocative	ἐνῐαυτέ eniauté	ἐνῐαυτώ eniautṓ	ἐνῐαυτοί eniautoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• 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, page 426
• “ἐνιαυτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἐνιαυτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἐνιαυτός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἐνιαυτός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἐνιαυτός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἐνιαυτός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἐνιαυτός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1763 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • year idem, page 995.