εὐρυόδεια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From εὐρύς (eurús, “wide”) +‎ ὁδός (hodós, “road, way”) +‎ -εια (-eia).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /eu̯.ry.ó.deː.a/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ew.ryˈo.di.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.βryˈo.ði.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.vryˈo.ði.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.vriˈo.ði.a/

Adjective

εὐρῠόδειᾰ • (eurŭódeiă) f; first declension

(Epic) having wide roads (epithet of χθών (khthṓn))

Usage notes

Attested only in the feminine genitive singular form εὐρῠοδείης (eurŭodeíēs).

Quotations

800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.635
800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.453
800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.149
800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.52

Further reading

“εὐρυόδεια”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
εὐρυοδείη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
εὐρυόδεια in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
εὐρυόδεια, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
“εὐρυόδεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press