Ἔρεβος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the common name ἔρεβος ‘the dark of the underworld’, itself from Proto-Indo-European *h₁régʷos. Cognate with Old Armenian երեկ (erek, evening), Sanskrit रजस् (rájas, dimness, darkness, mist) and Old Norse røkkr (twilight).

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Ἔρεβος • (Érebos) n (genitive Ἐρέβους); third declension

  1. Erebus

Inflection

Descendants

  • Greek: Έρεβος (Érevos)
  • English: Erebos
  • Latin: Erebus

Further reading

  • Ἔρεβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Ἔρεβος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,010
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