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ἔτυμον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔτυμον ἐτύμου

Structure: ἐτυμ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. the true sense of a word according to its origins, its etymology

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • λαβὲ σίδηρον, ὦ ξένε, δεῖξόν τε φήμην ἔτυμον ἀμφὶ Θεσσαλῶν. (Euripides, episode 2:10)
  • καλοῦσι δὲ καὶ τὰσ μισθαρνούσασ ἑταίρασ καὶ τὸ ἐπὶ συνουσίαισ μισθαρνεῖν ἑταιρεῖν, οὐκ ἔτι πρὸσ τὸ ἔτυμον ἀναφέροντεσ, ἀλλὰ πρὸσ τὸ εὐσχημονέστερον, καθὸ δὴ καὶ Μένανδροσ ἐν Παρακαταθήκῃ ἀπὸ τῶν ἑταιρῶν τοὺσ ἑταίρουσ διαστέλλων φησί· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 28 3:5)
  • εἰ ἔτυμον κείνην γε σὺν οὐλοβόροισ ἐχίεσσι θόρνυσθαι, προλιποῦσαν ἁλὸσ νόμον, ἠπείροισιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 90 2:4)
  • ἐγὼ γάρ σ’ ἐγὼ ἔκανον, ὢ μέλεοσ, ἐγώ, φάμ’ ἔτυμον. (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, strophe 42)
  • Ζεῦ τέλει’, αἰεὶ δὲ τοιαύταν Ἀμένα παρ’ ὕδωρ αἶσαν ἀστοῖσ καὶ βασιλεῦσιν διακρίνειν ἔτυμον λόγον ἀνθρώπων, σύν τοι τίν κεν ἁγητὴρ ἀνήρ, υἱῷ τ’ ἐπιτελλόμενοσ, δᾶμον γεραίρων τράποι σύμφωνον ἐσ ἁσυχίαν. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 1 24:1)

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