ἔτυμος

English (LSJ)

ον, also η, ον S.Ph.205 (lyr.) (only in neut. in Hom.):— poet. Adj.

   A true, ψεύσομαι, ἦ ἔτυμον ἐρέω; Il.10.534; φάμ' ἔτυμον S. Ant. 1320 (lyr.), cf. Call.Fr.1.39 P.; ψεύδεα πολλὰ λέγων ἐτύμοισιν ὁμοῖα Od.19.203, cf. Hes.Th.27, Thgn.713; οἵ ῥ' ἔτυμα κραίνουσι those [dreams] have true issues, Od.19.567; γνώσει τάδ' ὡς ἔ. A.Pr. 295 (anap.); ἔ. λόγος Stesich. 32, Pi.P.1.68; ἔ. ἄγγελος, φήμη, φάτις, A.Th.82 (lyr.), E.El.818, Ar.Pax114 (anap.); βάλλει μ' ἐτύμα φθογγά S.Ph.205 (lyr.); πάθεα A.Eu.496; τέχνη Dor. ap. Pl.Phdr.260e; ὡς ἔτυμ' ἑστάκαντι how natural... Theoc.15.82.    2 neut. ἔτυμον, as Adv., ἀλλ' ἔτυμόν τοι ἦλθ' Ὀδυσεύς Od.23.26; οὔ σ' ἔτυμόν γε φάμεν πεπνῦσθαι Il.23.440; ὡς ἔτυμον AP7.352: regul. Adv. -μως Xenoph. 8.4, Pi.O.6.77, A.Th.918 (lyr.), B.12.228, etc.; ὡς ἐτύμως A.Eu.534 (lyr.).    II ἔτυμον, τό, as Subst., the true sense of a word according to its origin, its etymology, D.S.1.11, Plu.2.278c, Ath.13.571d. Adv. -μως etymologically, Arist.Mu.400a6, Str.9.2.17, Ph.1.30: Comp. -ώτερον EM526.2: Sup. -ώτατα Nicom.Ar.2.27.—Never in Att. Prose; in later writers only in signf. 11, exc. in Pl.Ax.366b.