ἐρατός
Word
Validation
Yes
Word-form
Ἥρα
Word-lemma
Etymon-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
Hēra
English translation (word)
Hera
Transliteration (Etymon)
eratos
English translation (etymon)
lovely
Century
4 BC
Source
Idem
Ref.
Cratylus 404b-c
Ed.
J. Burnet, Platonis Opera, Oxford UP, 1903
Quotation
Ἥρα δὲ ἐρατή τις, ὥσπερ οὖν καὶ λέγεται ὁ Ζεὺς αὐτῆς ἐρασθεὶς ἔχειν
Translation (En)
Hera is a lovely (eratē) one, as indeed, Zeus is said to have married her for love (Fowler's translation)
Modern etymology
Hēra is a goddess of maturity, whose name is related to hōra "season", and in other Indo-European languages to the name of the year in Germanic, Germ. Jahr, Engl. year. One reconstructs a PIE etymon *Hieh1r-eh2
Persistence in Modern Greek
The name of the goddess is kept in Modern Greek
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
This is no more than a wordplay, based on the narrative mythology of the Olympian gods