εὖρος

See also: εύρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *éuros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wéros (width, breadth, expanse, space) (compare Sanskrit वरस् (váras)), from the root *h₁wer(H)-. Related to εὐρύς (eurús).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

εὖρος • (eûros) n (genitive εὔρους); third declension

  1. width, breadth

Inflection

Descendants

  • Greek: εύρος (évros)
  • Latin: eurus

See also

Further reading

  • Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) “*h₁u̯erH-”, in Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pages 250–251
  • εὖρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • εὖρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • εὖρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • εὖρος 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • εὖρος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
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