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

 

• IPA^(key): /êu̯.ros/ → /ˈe.βros/ → /ˈe.vros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /êu̯.ros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈew.ros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.βros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.vros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈe.vros/

Noun

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

1. width, breadth

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ εὖρος tò eûros	τὼ εὔρει tṑ eúrei	τᾰ̀ εὔρη tà eúrē
Genitive	τοῦ εὔρους toû eúrous	τοῖν εὐροῖν toîn euroîn	τῶν εὐρῶν tôn eurôn
Dative	τῷ εὔρει tôi eúrei	τοῖν εὐροῖν toîn euroîn	τοῖς εὔρεσῐ / εὔρεσῐν toîs eúresi(n)
Accusative	τὸ εὖρος tò eûros	τὼ εὔρει tṑ eúrei	τᾰ̀ εὔρη tà eúrē
Vocative	εὖρος eûros	εὔρει eúrei	εὔρη eúrē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of τὸ εὖρος; τοῦ εὔρους (Attic)

Descendants

• → Greek: εύρος (évros)
• → Latin: eurus

See also

• μῆκος (mêkos)
• ὕψος (húpsos)

Further reading

• Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) “*h₁u̯erH-”, in Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon (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.
  • area idem, page 39.
  • breadth idem, page 94.
  • broadness idem, page 100.
  • extent idem, page 296.
  • width idem, page 978.
• “εὖρος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011