ἔρις
Word
Validation
No
Word-form
ἔριθοι
Word-lemma
Etymon-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
erithos
English translation (word)
day-labourer, hired servant
Transliteration (Etymon)
eris
English translation (etymon)
quarrel
Source
idem
Ref.
A Scholion Il. 18.550d
Ed.
H. Erbse, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem (scholia vetera), vols. 1-5, 7, Berlin: De Gruyter, 1:1969; 2:1971; 3:1974; 4:1975; 5:1977; 7:1988
Quotation
ἔριθοι: νῦν ἐργάται, γεωργοί, παρὰ τὴν ἔραν τὴν γῆν· ἢ παρὰ τὸ ἐρίζειν ἐν τῷ ἔργῳ.
Translation (En)
Erithoi "hired servants". Here workers, reapers, from era "earth". Or from "to compete" (erizein) in their work
Parallels
Etym. Gudianum Additamenta, epsilon, p. 522 (Ἐρίζειν· κυρίως τὸ περὶ τῆς γῆς διαφέρεσθαι· ἀπὸ τῆς ἔρας, ὅθεν καὶ ἔριθοι, οἱ θερισταί. αἱ δὲ ἔριθοι ἀπὸ τῶν ἐρίων. ἢ φιλόνεικοι, ἀπὸ τῆς ἔριδος); Etym. Gudianum, zeta, p. 230 (Ζῆθος, ὁ ἥρως, Ἀμφίων τε Ζῆθός τε, παρὰ τὸν ζήσω μέλλοντα ζῆθος, ὡς ἐρίσω ἔριθος); Etym. Magnum, Kallierges, p. 411 (Εἴρηται παρὰ τὸν ζήσω μέλλοντα Ζῆθος, ὡς ἐρίσω ἔριθος)
Modern etymology
Unknown (Beekes, EDG)
Persistence in Modern Greek
No
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
Derivational etymology, assuming that the servants are competing to get the job done. This etymology had the advantage over the usual ones, that it could be applied to male servant and female ones alike