Ἐρέτρια
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the root of ἐρέτης (erétēs, “rower”) + -τρῐᾰ (-trĭă).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.ré.tri.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /eˈre.tri.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /eˈre.tri.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /eˈre.tri.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /eˈre.tri.a/
Proper noun
Ἐρέτρῐᾰ • (Erétrĭă) f (genitive Ἐρετρῐ́ᾱς); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ἡ Ἐρέτρῐᾰ hē Erétrĭă | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Ἐρετρῐ́ᾱς tês Eretrĭ́ās | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Ἐρετρῐ́ᾳ tēî Eretrĭ́āi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Ἐρέτρῐᾰν tḕn Erétrĭăn | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Ἐρέτρῐᾰ Erétrĭă | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Ἐρετρῐαῖος (Eretrĭaîos)
- Ἐρετρῐεύς (Eretrĭeús)
- Ἐρετρῐκός (Eretrĭkós)
Descendants
- Greek: Ερέτρια (Erétria)
- → Latin: Eretria
- French: Érétrie
Further reading
- “Ἐρέτρια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Ἐρέτρια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,010