ἀετός

See also: αετός, and Αετός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• αἰετός (aietós) — Epic, lyric, Ionic, Old Attic
• αἰετός (aietós) — Doric

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *ayyetós, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewyetós, from *h₂éwis (“bird”). Cognate with Sanskrit वि (ví), Latin avis, Old Armenian հաւ (haw).^[1]

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /aː.e.tós/ → /a.eˈtos/ → /a.eˈtos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /aː.e.tós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.eˈtos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.eˈtos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.eˈtos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.eˈtos/

Noun

ᾱ̓ετός • (āetós) m (genitive ᾱ̓ετοῦ); second declension

1. eagle
2. (astronomy) the constellation Aquila
3. omen
4. gable

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ᾱ̓ετός ho āetós	τὼ ᾱ̓ετώ tṑ āetṓ	οἱ ᾱ̓ετοί hoi āetoí
Genitive	τοῦ ᾱ̓ετοῦ toû āetoû	τοῖν ᾱ̓ετοῖν toîn āetoîn	τῶν ᾱ̓ετῶν tôn āetôn
Dative	τῷ ᾱ̓ετῷ tôi āetôi	τοῖν ᾱ̓ετοῖν toîn āetoîn	τοῖς ᾱ̓ετοῖς toîs āetoîs
Accusative	τὸν ᾱ̓ετόν tòn āetón	τὼ ᾱ̓ετώ tṑ āetṓ	τοὺς ᾱ̓ετούς toùs āetoús
Vocative	ᾱ̓ετέ āeté	ᾱ̓ετώ āetṓ	ᾱ̓ετοί āetoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Second declension of ὁ ᾱ̓ετός; τοῦ ᾱ̓ετοῦ (Attic)

Descendants

• Greek: αϊτός m (aïtós) / αετός m (aetós, “eagle”), χαρταετός (chartaetós, “kite (toy)”)
• Translingual: Circaetus, Ictinaetus, Gypaetus, Haliaeetus (via ἁλιαίετος (haliaíetos, “osprey”)), Hieraaetus,
• → Samoan: aeto
  • → Tokelauan: āeto

References

1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “αἰετός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 35

Further reading

• “ἀετός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀετός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• G105 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• ἀετός in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • eagle idem, page 258.
  • gable idem, page 351.
  • pediment idem, page 601.
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press