Ἔρεβος
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
From the common name ἔρεβος ‘the dark of the underworld’, itself from Proto-Indo-European *h₁régʷos. Cognate with Old Armenian երեկ (erek, “evening”), Sanskrit रजस् (rájas, “dimness, darkness, mist”) and Old Norse røkkr (“twilight”).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /é.re.bos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈe.re.bos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈe.re.βos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈe.re.vos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈe.re.vos/
Proper noun edit
Ἔρεβος • (Érebos) n (genitive Ἐρέβους); third declension
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ Ἔρεβος tò Érebos |
τὼ Ἐρέβει tṑ Erébei |
τᾰ̀ Ἐρέβη tà Erébē | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Ἐρέβους toû Erébous |
τοῖν Ἐρεβοῖν toîn Ereboîn |
τῶν Ἐρεβῶν tôn Erebôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Ἐρέβει tôi Erébei |
τοῖν Ἐρεβοῖν toîn Ereboîn |
τοῖς Ἐρέβεσῐ / Ἐρέβεσῐν toîs Erébesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ Ἔρεβος tò Érebos |
τὼ Ἐρέβει tṑ Erébei |
τᾰ̀ Ἐρέβη tà Erébē | ||||||||||
Vocative | Ἔρεβος Érebos |
Ἐρέβει Erébei |
Ἐρέβη Erébē | ||||||||||
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Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “Ἔρεβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ἔρεβος”, 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[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,010