ἐρινεός

See also: Ἐρινεός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ἐρῑνεώς (erīneṓs) — Attic

Etymology

Recalling Messenian τράγος (trágos, “wild fig-tree”) and Latin caprificus (“wild fig-tree”), Prellwitz compared an old word for "billy-goat", which is also found in ἔριφος (ériphos, “kid, young goat”). According to Chantraine and Schwyzer, however, the word is Pre-Greek. According to Blažek, it is Hurrian 𒄑𒂊𒊑𒅎𒁉 (^GIŠe-ri-im-bi /⁠erimbi⁠/), 𒄑𒂊𒊑𒁉 (^GIŠe-ri-bi /⁠eribi⁠/, “cedar”), suffixed from Akkadian 𒄑𒂞 (^GIŠERIN /⁠erēnu, erinnu⁠/, “cedar”), from Sumerian 𒄑𒂞 (^GIŠERIN /⁠eren⁠/).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.riː.ne.ós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.ri.neˈos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.ri.neˈos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.ri.neˈos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.ri.neˈos/

Noun

ἐρῑνεός • (erīneós) m (genitive ἐρῑνεοῦ); second declension

wild fig-tree (Ficus carica)
Synonym: τρᾰ́γος (trágos)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ἐρῑνεός; τοῦ ἐρῑνεοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἐρῑνεός ho erīneós	τὼ ἐρῑνεώ tṑ erīneṓ	οἱ ἐρῑνεοί hoi erīneoí
Genitive	τοῦ ἐρῑνεοῦ toû erīneoû	τοῖν ἐρῑνεοῖν toîn erīneoîn	τῶν ἐρῑνεῶν tôn erīneôn
Dative	τῷ ἐρῑνεῷ tôi erīneôi	τοῖν ἐρῑνεοῖν toîn erīneoîn	τοῖς ἐρῑνεοῖς toîs erīneoîs
Accusative	τὸν ἐρῑνεόν tòn erīneón	τὼ ἐρῑνεώ tṑ erīneṓ	τοὺς ἐρῑνεούς toùs erīneoús
Vocative	ἐρῑνεέ erīneé	ἐρῑνεώ erīneṓ	ἐρῑνεοί erīneoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ἐρῑνᾰ́ζω (erīnázō)
ἐρῑνᾰ́ς (erīnás)
ἐρῑνᾰσμός (erīnasmós)
ἐρῑνᾰστός (erīnastós)
ἐρῑνεόν (erīneón)
ἐρῑνεώδης (erīneṓdēs)

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“ἐρινεός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ἐρινεός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ἐρινεός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἐρινεός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἐρῑνεός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 458
Blažek, Václav (2014) “Etymologizing ‘unetymologizable’ Greek dendronyms”, in Graeco-Latina Brunensia‎^[1], volume 19, number 1, page 43