ἐρεύθω: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: [[make red]], [[colour red]] (Il.).<br />Other forms: Aor. [[ἐρεῦσαι]],<br />Compounds: also with prefix <b class="b3">συνεξ-</b>, <b class="b3">κατ-</b>,<br />Derivatives: [[ἔρευθος]] n. [[redness]] (Hp., Ph.) with [[ἐρευθής]] [[red-coloured]] (Str., Arat.; on the formation Chantraine Formation 428, Schwyzer 513), further the poetical [[ἐρευθήεις]] (<b class="b3">-ιόεις</b>) <b class="b2">id.</b> (A. R.; Schwyzer 527), [[ἐρευθαλέος]] <b class="b2">id.</b> (Nonn.), prob. innovation (Debrunner IF 23, 7); not old <b class="b2">l-n-</b>interchange in spite of [[Ἐρευθαλίων]] (Hom.; like [[Δευκαλίων]], [[Πυγμαλίων]] a. o.), [[Ἐρευθαλία]] town in Argos (Sch.; like [[Οἰχαλία]]). Denomin. verbs: [[ἐρευθέω]] [[get red]] (Luc., pap.) with [[ἐρεύθημα]] (Gal.), [[ἐρευθιάω]] <b class="b2">id.</b> (Hp.; after the verbs of disease). - The plant name [[ἐρευθέδανον]] n. [[red dye]], [[Rubia tinctorum]] (Hdt., Thphr.; Schwyzer 530, Chantraine 362); also [[ἐρυθρόδανον]], s. [[ἐρυθρός]].<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [872] <b class="b2">*h₁reudʰ-</b> [[red]]<br />Etymology: [[ἐρεύθω]] is identical with ONo. [[rjōđa]] [[make bloody]], OE [[rēodan]] [[paint red]]. [[ἔρευθος]] too can have a outer-Greek equivalent, i. e. in Lat. [[rōbus]], [[rōbur]], <b class="b2">-oris</b> [[heartwood]] (with dialectal [[ō]] < [[eu]]), as heartwood is stronger red or browny than the sap-wood (see W.-Hofmann s. v.). <b class="b2">s-</b>stem forms have been assumed, but see on [[ἐρυσίβη]]. - An old formation is [[ἐρυθρός]]; s. v.