ἔρις

See also: έρις and Ἔρις

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /é.ris/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ris/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ris/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ris/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ris/

Etymology 1

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to separate”), albeit according to Vasmer is instead cognate to Sanskrit ऋति (ṛti, “assault”) and Proto-Germanic *ernustuz (“struggle, fight”)

Noun

ἔρῐς • (éris) f (genitive ἔρῐδος); third declension

strife, quarrel (especially of battle)
contention, rivalry
(after Homer) political or domestic strife, discord, quarrel
1. wordy wrangling, disputation, contention

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ἔρῐς; τῆς ἔρῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἔρῐς hē éris	τὼ ἔρῐδε tṑ éride	αἱ ἔρῐδες / ἔρεις hai érides / éreis
Genitive	τῆς ἔρῐδος tês éridos	τοῖν ἐρῐ́δοιν toîn erídoin	τῶν ἐρῐ́δων tôn erídōn
Dative	τῇ ἔρῐδῐ têi éridi	τοῖν ἐρῐ́δοιν toîn erídoin	ταῖς ἔρῐσῐ / ἔρῐσῐν taîs érisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἔρῐδᾰ / ἔρῐν tḕn érida / érin	τὼ ἔρῐδε tṑ éride	τᾱ̀ς ἔρῐδᾰς tā̀s éridas
Vocative	ἔρι éri	ἔρῐδε éride	ἔρῐδες / ἔρεις érides / éreis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

ἐρίζω (erízō)
Ἔρῐς (Éris)
ἐριστικός (eristikós)

Descendants

Greek: έριδα (érida)

References

“ἔρις (Α)”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Watkins, Calvert, ed., The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, 2nd ed.

Etymology 2

See ἶρῐς (îris, “rainbow”).

Noun

ἔρῐς • (éris) f (genitive ἔρῐδος); third declension

Alternative spelling of ἶρῐς (îris)

References

“ἔρις (Β)”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἔρις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ἔρις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ἔρις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἔρις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“ἔρις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G2054 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- altercation idem, page 25.
- antagonism idem, page 32.
- antipathy idem, page 32.
- argument idem, page 39.
- bickering idem, page 78.
- brawl idem, page 94.
- competition idem, page 151.
- contention idem, page 167.
- controversy idem, page 170.
- difference idem, page 223.
- disagreement idem, page 227.
- discord idem, page 230.
- discussion idem, page 232.
- disputation idem, page 238.
- dispute idem, page 238.
- dissension idem, page 239.
- disunion idem, page 243.
- emulation idem, page 269.
- feud idem, page 317.
- hostility idem, page 407.
- jar idem, page 461.
- quarrel idem, page 663.
- rivalry idem, page 718.
- schism idem, page 739.
- scramble idem, page 741.
- split idem, page 803.
- strife idem, page 825.
- variance idem, page 944.

Greek

Noun

ἔρις • (éris) f

Katharevousa form of έρις (éris)

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