ἔρανος

See also: έρανος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Of unclear origin. Traditionally grouped together with ἔροτις (érotis, “feast”) and ἑορτή (heortḗ, “feast, festival”), but Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin based on the opaque construction of the putative pre-form *ϝέρα-νος (*wéra-nos).^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /é.ra.nos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ra.nos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ra.nos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ra.nos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ra.nos/

Noun

ἔρᾰνος • (érănos) m (genitive ἐρᾰ́νου); second declension

meal to which each contributed his share
(in general) feast, festival, banquet
loan raised by contributions for the benefit of an individual
favour, service, especially one which brings a return
permanent association apparently religious in character

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ἔρᾰνος; τοῦ ἐρᾰ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἔρᾰνος ho érănos	τὼ ἐρᾰ́νω tṑ erắnō	οἱ ἔρᾰνοι hoi érănoi
Genitive	τοῦ ἐρᾰ́νου toû erắnou	τοῖν ἐρᾰ́νοιν toîn erắnoin	τῶν ἐρᾰ́νων tôn erắnōn
Dative	τῷ ἐρᾰ́νῳ tōî erắnōi	τοῖν ἐρᾰ́νοιν toîn erắnoin	τοῖς ἐρᾰ́νοις toîs erắnois
Accusative	τὸν ἔρᾰνον tòn érănon	τὼ ἐρᾰ́νω tṑ erắnō	τοὺς ἐρᾰ́νους toùs erắnous
Vocative	ἔρᾰνε érăne	ἐρᾰ́νω erắnō	ἔρᾰνοι érănoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ἀρχέρανος (arkhéranos)
ἐρανάρχης (eranárkhēs)
ἐρανέμπολος (eranémpolos)
ἐρανεστάς (eranestás)
ἐρανίζω (eranízō)
ἐρανικός (eranikós)
ἐράνιον (eránion)
ἐράνισις (eránisis)
ἐρανισμός (eranismós)
ἐρανιστής (eranistḗs)

Descendants

Greek: έρανος (éranos)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἔρανος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 449-450

“ἔρανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἔρανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ἔρανος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ἔρανος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἔρανος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
ἔρανος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἔρανος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 449-450

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