εὐετηρία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
εὐ- (eu-, “good”) + ἔτος (étos, “year”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /eu̯.e.tɛː.rí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /e.we.te̝ˈri.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /e.βe.tiˈri.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /e.ve.tiˈri.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /e.ve.tiˈri.a/
Noun
εὐετηρῐ́ᾱ • (euetērĭ́ā) f (genitive εὐετηρῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- a good season
- thriving
- prosperity, plenty
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ εὐετηρῐ́ᾱ hē euetērĭ́ā |
τὼ εὐετηρῐ́ᾱ tṑ euetērĭ́ā |
αἱ εὐετηρῐ́αι hai euetērĭ́ai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς εὐετηρῐ́ᾱς tês euetērĭ́ās |
τοῖν εὐετηρῐ́αιν toîn euetērĭ́ain |
τῶν εὐετηρῐῶν tôn euetērĭôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ εὐετηρῐ́ᾳ tēî euetērĭ́āi |
τοῖν εὐετηρῐ́αιν toîn euetērĭ́ain |
ταῖς εὐετηρῐ́αις taîs euetērĭ́ais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν εὐετηρῐ́ᾱν tḕn euetērĭ́ān |
τὼ εὐετηρῐ́ᾱ tṑ euetērĭ́ā |
τᾱ̀ς εὐετηρῐ́ᾱς tā̀s euetērĭ́ās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | εὐετηρῐ́ᾱ euetērĭ́ā |
εὐετηρῐ́ᾱ euetērĭ́ā |
εὐετηρῐ́αι euetērĭ́ai | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
- κᾰλοκαιρῐ́ᾱ f (kălokairĭ́ā)
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 (1914) “εὐετηρία”, in Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn