ἐτήτυμος
Word
Validation
No
Word-form
ἔτυμος
Word-lemma
Etymon-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
etumos
English translation (word)
true
Transliteration (Etymon)
etētumos
English translation (etymon)
true
Century
9 AD
Source
idem
Ref.
Epimerismi in Psalmos, p. 119
Ed.
T. Gaisford, Georgii Choerobosci epimerismi in Psalmos, vol. 3, Oxford, 1842
Quotation
ἕτοιμος· σημαίνει δύο· τὸν πρόχειρον, καὶ γίνεται παρὰ τὸ οἶμα τὸ ὅρμημα, καὶ τὸ ἔθος, ἔθοιμος καὶ ἕτοιμος. Εἰ δὲ σημαίνει τὸν ἀληθῆ, γίνεται παρὰ τὸ ἐτήτυμος, καὶ ἐν συγκοπῇ ἔτυμος, ἐξ οὗ καὶ ἐτυμολογία.
Translation (En)
Etoimos "ready". It has two different meanings. 1. "ready", and it comes from oima "impulse" and ethos "custom", *ethoimos and etoimos. But if it means "true", it comes from etētumos "true", and by syncope etumos, from which also comes etumologia "etymology"
Parallels
There is no parallel
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"
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
Choerobscus provides two different etymologies for two different words, which had fallen together in the Byzantine pronunciation, ἔτοιμος "ready" and ἔτυμος "true". Whereas all our sources derive the longer form ἐτήτυμος from the shorter one ἔτυμος, which is correct, Choeroboscus is the only one to assume the reverse derivation, with ἐτήτυμος as the etymon and ἔτυμος resulting from a syncope (reversible etymology)