Ἐρεχθεύς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐρέχθω (erékhthō, “rend, break”) +‎ -εύς (-eús).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.rekʰ.tʰěu̯s/ → /e.rexˈθeɸs/ → /e.rexˈθefs/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.rekʰ.tʰěu̯s/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.rekʰˈtʰews/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.rexˈθeɸs/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.rexˈθefs/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.rexˈθefs/

Proper noun

Ἐρεχθεύς • (Erekhtheús) m (genitive Ἐρεχθέως); third declension

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Erechtheus

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Ἐρεχθεύς; τοῦ Ἐρεχθέως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ἐρεχθεύς ho Erekhtheús
Genitive	τοῦ Ἐρεχθέως toû Erekhthéōs
Dative	τῷ Ἐρεχθεῖ tôi Erekhtheî
Accusative	τὸν Ἐρεχθέᾱ tòn Erekhthéā
Vocative	Ἐρεχθεῦ Erekhtheû
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ἐρεχθείδης (Erekhtheídēs)

Descendants

• Greek: Ερεχθεύς (Erechthéfs)
• → Latin: Erechtheus

References

• “Ἐρεχθεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ἐρεχθεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Ἐρεχθεύς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• “Ἐρεχθεύς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,010
• Ἐρεχθεύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette