ἐρῳδιός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀρῳδιός (arōidiós), ῥῳδιός (rhōidiós)

Etymology

The ending is similar to other bird names, like αἰγυπιός (aigupiós), αἰγωλιός (aigōliós) and χαραδριός (kharadriós). The resemblance with Latin ardea (“heron”) and Serbo-Croatian róda (“stork”) cannot be coincidental. According to Beekes, the word could be of Pre-Greek origin because of the variants.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.rɔːi̯.di.ós/ → /e.ro.ðiˈos/ → /e.ro.ðiˈos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.rɔːi̯.di.ós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.ro.diˈos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.ro.ðiˈos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.ro.ðiˈos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.ro.ðiˈos/

Noun

ἐρῳδῐός • (erōidĭós) m (genitive ἐρῳδῐοῦ); second declension

1. heron (bird of the genus Ardea)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ἐρῳδῐός; τοῦ ἐρῳδῐοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἐρῳδῐός ho erōidĭós	τὼ ἐρῳδῐώ tṑ erōidĭṓ	οἱ ἐρῳδῐοί hoi erōidĭoí
Genitive	τοῦ ἐρῳδῐοῦ toû erōidĭoû	τοῖν ἐρῳδῐοῖν toîn erōidĭoîn	τῶν ἐρῳδῐῶν tôn erōidĭôn
Dative	τῷ ἐρῳδῐῷ tôi erōidĭôi	τοῖν ἐρῳδῐοῖν toîn erōidĭoîn	τοῖς ἐρῳδῐοῖς toîs erōidĭoîs
Accusative	τὸν ἐρῳδῐόν tòn erōidĭón	τὼ ἐρῳδῐώ tṑ erōidĭṓ	τοὺς ἐρῳδῐούς toùs erōidĭoús
Vocative	ἐρῳδῐέ erōidĭé	ἐρῳδῐώ erōidĭṓ	ἐρῳδῐοί erōidĭoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• λευκερῳδιός (leukerōidiós)

Descendants

• Greek: ερωδιός (erodiós)
• → Classical Syriac: ܗܪܘܕܐ (hrwdʾ), ܐܪܘܕܝܣ (ʾrwdys)
• → Old Armenian: արիովդ (ariovd)
• → Translingual: Erodium

Further reading

• “ἐρῳδιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἐρῳδιός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἐρῳδιός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 468-469