ἑορτή

See also: εορτή

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ἔροτις (érotis) — Aeolic
ὁρτή (hortḗ) — Ionic

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Hellenic *wewortā́ and related to ἐρίηρoς (eríēros), ἔρανος (éranos), ἦρα (êra), with further cognates outside Hellenic unknown.^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /he.or.tɛ̌ː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)e.orˈte̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.orˈti/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.orˈti/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.orˈti/

Noun

ἑορτή • (heortḗ) f (genitive ἑορτῆς); first declension

feast
1. festival, holiday
2. amusement, pastime
3. (with or without τοῦ πάσχα) the Passover

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἑορτή; τῆς ἑορτῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἑορτή hē heortḗ	τὼ ἑορτᾱ́ tṑ heortā́	αἱ ἑορταί hai heortaí
Genitive	τῆς ἑορτῆς tês heortês	τοῖν ἑορταῖν toîn heortaîn	τῶν ἑορτῶν tôn heortôn
Dative	τῇ ἑορτῇ tēî heortēî	τοῖν ἑορταῖν toîn heortaîn	ταῖς ἑορταῖς taîs heortaîs
Accusative	τὴν ἑορτήν tḕn heortḗn	τὼ ἑορτᾱ́ tṑ heortā́	τᾱ̀ς ἑορτᾱ́ς tā̀s heortā́s
Vocative	ἑορτή heortḗ	ἑορτᾱ́ heortā́	ἑορταί heortaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

ἑορτάζω (heortázō, “to keep or celebrate a festival”)

Descendants

Greek: εορτή (eortí), γιορτή (giortí)
→ Ottoman Turkish: یورتی (yortu)
- Turkish: yortu

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἑορτή”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 436

“ἑορτή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἑορτή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ἑορτή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ἑορτή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἑορτή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
G1859 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.
- amusement idem, page 28.
- anniversary idem, page 30.
- carnival idem, page 114.
- celebratlon idem, page 120.
- fair idem, page 302.
- feast idem, page 312.
- festival idem, page 316.
- holiday idem, page 403.
- thanksgiving idem, page 863.
- triumph idem, page 896.

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἑορτή”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 436

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