ἐνιαυτός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, the etymology is unknown, and he criticizes some of the proposals to date, including Meillet's that the first part is ἔνος (énos, “year”), as in δίενος (díenos, “two years old”), and the second one is from ἰαύω (iaúō).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.ni.au̯.tós/ → /e.ni.aɸˈtos/ → /e.ni.afˈtos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.ni.au̯.tós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.ni.aʍˈtos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.ni.aɸˈtos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.ni.afˈtos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.ni.afˈtos/

Noun

ἐνῐαυτός • (enĭautós) m (genitive ἐνῐαυτοῦ); second declension (Epic, Attic, Ionic, Koine)

1. anniversary
2. year

Declension

Second declension of ὁ ἐνῐαυτός; τοῦ ἐνῐαυτοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἐνῐαυτός ho enĭautós	τὼ ἐνῐαυτώ tṑ enĭautṓ	οἱ ἐνῐαυτοί hoi enĭautoí
Genitive	τοῦ ἐνῐαυτοῦ toû enĭautoû	τοῖν ἐνῐαυτοῖν toîn enĭautoîn	τῶν ἐνῐαυτῶν tôn enĭautôn
Dative	τῷ ἐνῐαυτῷ tôi enĭautôi	τοῖν ἐνῐαυτοῖν toîn enĭautoîn	τοῖς ἐνῐαυτοῖς toîs enĭautoîs
Accusative	τὸν ἐνῐαυτόν tòn enĭautón	τὼ ἐνῐαυτώ tṑ enĭautṓ	τοὺς ἐνῐαυτούς toùs enĭautoús
Vocative	ἐνῐαυτέ enĭauté	ἐνῐαυτώ enĭautṓ	ἐνῐαυτοί enĭautoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 426
• “ἐνιαυτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἐνιαυτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἐνιαυτός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἐνιαυτός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἐνιαυτός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἐνιαυτός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• “ἐνιαυτός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1763 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.
  • year idem, page 995.