εὐκέραος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- εὔκερος (eúkeros), ἠΰκερος (ēǘkeros) — Epic
- εὔκερως (eúkerōs) — contracted
- ἠΰκερως (ēǘkerōs) — contracted, Epic
Etymology
εὐ- (eu-, “good, well”) + κέρᾰς (kérăs, “horn”) + -ος (-os, suffix forming second-declension adjectives)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /eu̯.ké.ra.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /eʍˈke.ra.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /eɸˈce.ra.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /efˈce.ra.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /efˈce.ra.os/
Adjective
εὐκέρᾰος • (eukérăos) m or f (neuter εὐκέρᾰον); second declension
- with beautiful horns
- c. 450 CE – 470 CE, Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14.186–192:[1]
- δώδεκα δὲ ξύμπαντας ἐκόσμεον ἡγεμονῆες,
Σπαργεύς τε Γληνεύς τε χοροίτυπος, ἀλλοφυὴς δὲ
σύνδρομος Εὐρυβίῳ σταφυληκόμος ἵκετο Κητεύς,
καὶ Ῥιφόνῳ Πετραῖος ὁμάρτεεν, ἀκροπότης δὲ
Αἴσακος Ὀρθάων τε συνέστιχον, οἷς μίαν ἄμφω
Ἀμφίθεμις καὶ Φαῦνος ἐποιήσαντο πορείην,
εὐκεράῳ δὲ Φάνητι συνέμπορος ἦλθε Νομείων.- dṓdeka dè xúmpantas ekósmeon hēgemonêes,
Spargeús te Glēneús te khoroítupos, allophuḕs dè
súndromos Eurubíōi staphulēkómos híketo Kēteús,
kaì Rhiphónōi Petraîos homárteen, akropótēs dè
Aísakos Ortháōn te sunéstikhon, hoîs mían ámphō
Amphíthemis kaì Phaûnos epoiḗsanto poreíēn,
eukeráōi dè Phánēti sunémporos êlthe Nomeíōn.
- 1940 translation by William Henry Denham Rouse[2]
- Twelve captains commanded them all: Spargeus and Gleneus the dancer, and beside Eurybios the strange figure of Ceteus the vinedresser; Petraios with Rhiphonos, Aisacos the deep drinker and Orthaon, with whom marched both Amphithemis and Phaunos, and Nomeion side by side with wellhorned Phanes.
- dṓdeka dè xúmpantas ekósmeon hēgemonêes,
- δώδεκα δὲ ξύμπαντας ἐκόσμεον ἡγεμονῆες,
Declension
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
| Nominative | εὐκέρᾰος eukérăos |
εὐκέρᾰον eukérăon |
εὐκερᾰ́ω eukerắō |
εὐκερᾰ́ω eukerắō |
εὐκέρᾰοι eukérăoi |
εὐκέρᾰᾰ eukérăă | ||||||||
| Genitive | εὐκερᾰ́ου eukerắou |
εὐκερᾰ́ου eukerắou |
εὐκερᾰ́οιν eukerắoin |
εὐκερᾰ́οιν eukerắoin |
εὐκερᾰ́ων eukerắōn |
εὐκερᾰ́ων eukerắōn | ||||||||
| Dative | εὐκερᾰ́ῳ eukerắōi |
εὐκερᾰ́ῳ eukerắōi |
εὐκερᾰ́οιν eukerắoin |
εὐκερᾰ́οιν eukerắoin |
εὐκερᾰ́οις eukerắois |
εὐκερᾰ́οις eukerắois | ||||||||
| Accusative | εὐκέρᾰον eukérăon |
εὐκέρᾰον eukérăon |
εὐκερᾰ́ω eukerắō |
εὐκερᾰ́ω eukerắō |
εὐκερᾰ́ους eukerắous |
εὐκέρᾰᾰ eukérăă | ||||||||
| Vocative | εὐκέρᾰε eukérăe |
εὐκέρᾰον eukérăon |
εὐκερᾰ́ω eukerắō |
εὐκερᾰ́ω eukerắō |
εὐκέρᾰοι eukérăoi |
εὐκέρᾰᾰ eukérăă | ||||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| εὐκερᾰ́ως eukerắōs |
εὐκερᾰώτερος eukerăṓteros |
εὐκερᾰώτᾰτος eukerăṓtătos | ||||||||||||
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Further reading
- “εὐκέρᾰος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “εὐκέραος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- εὐκέραος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- εὐκέραος in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache[3] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn