ἐτεός

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Word-form

ἔτυμον

Transliteration (Word)

etumos

English translation (word)

true

Transliteration (Etymon)

eteos

English translation (etymon)

true

Author

Herodian

Century

2 AD

Reference

Peri pathôn (supplementum), Lentz III/2, p. 236

Edition

A. Lentz, Grammatici graeci, vol. III/2, Leipzig, 1870

Source

Orion

Ref.

Etymologicum, epsilon, p. 57

Ed.

F. Sturz, Orionis Thebani etymologicon, Leipzig, Weigel, 1820

Quotation

Ἐτήτυμον. ἐτεὸν ἔτυμον, καὶ πλεονασμῷ τῆς τη συλλαβῆς, ἐτήτυμον

Translation (En)

Etētumon "true". Eteon "true", etumon "true", and by addition of the syllable /tē/, etētumon

Comment

Correct derivational etymology, as ἔτυμος is derived from an u-stem underlying ἐτεϝός. Semantically straightforward, since the lemma and the etymon are synonymous. The usual etymology in antiquity, however, derives ἔτυμος from ἐτός, itself the etymon of ἐτεός

Parallels

Choeroboscus, De spiritibus (excerpta), p. 197 (Τὸ Ε πρὸ τοῦ Τ ψιλοῦται. ἔτος. Ἐτεὸν, τὸ ἀληθές. ἔτυμον, καὶ ἐτήτυμον, τὸ αὐτό [probable implicit etymology]); Etym. Gudianum, epsilon, p. 549 (Ἔτυμος· τὸ τυ ψιλόν, καὶ σημαίνει τὸν ἀληθῆ, καὶ γίνεται παρὰ τὸ ἐτεόν, τὸ ἀληθές. ἐξ οὗ καὶ ἐτυμολογία, ἡ ἀληθολογία)

Modern etymology

Ἐτεός and ἐτός are related and belong with ἔτυμος and ἐτάζω. Ἐτεός probably goes back to *set-u-, matching Arm. stoyg "real" (Beekes, EDG)

Persistence in Modern Greek

MG has έτυμο as a learned technical word meaning "etymon"

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