Εὐρώτας

English (LSJ)

α, ὁ, Eurotas, the chief river of Laconia.
II pudenda muliebria, with allusion to εὐρύς, AP5.59 (Rufin.).

French (Bailly abrégé)

(ὁ) :
Eurotas, fl. de Laconie.
Étymologie: DELG εὐρώς.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

Εὐρώτας: ὁ Эврот (главная река Лаконии) Pind., Eur., Thuc., Xen. etc.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

Εὐρώτας: -ου, ὁ, ὁ κύριος ποταμὸς τῆς Λακωνίας. ΙΙ. τὸ γυναικεῖον αἰδοῖον ἐν ἀναφορᾷ πρὸς τὸ εὐρύς, Ἀνθ. Π. 5. 60.

English (Slater)

Εὐρώτας river of Sparta. πρὸς Πιτάναν δὲ παρ' Εὐρώτα πόρον δεῖ σάμερον ἐλθεῖν (αὕτη ἡ Πιτάνη ἡ τοῦ Εὐρώτα. Σ.) (O. 6.28) ῥεέθροισί τε Δίρκας ἔφανεν καὶ παρ' Εὐρώτᾳ πέλας i. e. at Thebes and Sparta (I. 1.29) Κάστορος δ' αἰχμὰ Πολυδεύκεός τ ἐπ Εὐρώτα ῥεέθροις (sc. γέρας ἔχει) (I. 5.33)

Wikipedia EN

The Eurotas (Ancient Greek: Εὐρώτας) or Evrotas (modern Greek: Ευρώτας) is the main river of Laconia and one of the major rivers of the Peloponnese, in Greece. The river's springs are located just northwest of the border between Laconia and Arcadia, at Skortsinos. The river is also fed by underwater springs at Pellana and by tributaries coursing down from Mt. Taygetos and Mt. Parnon, which flank the Eurotas valley to the west and east, respectively. The river is 82 kilometres (51 mi) long, flowing in a north-south direction and emptying into the Laconian Gulf. Its drainage basin is 2,239 km2 (864 sq mi).

In Greek mythology, Eurotas (/jʊəˈroʊtəs/; Ancient Greek: Εὐρώτας) was a king of Laconia.

Eurotas was the son of King Myles and grandson of Lelex, eponymous ancestor of the Leleges. The Bibliotheca gives a slight variant of the mythological generation of Eurotas, who was described as the son of Lelex, born from the ground, by his wife Cleocharia. In some accounts, his mother was called Taygete instead. Eurotas had no male heir, but he did have two daughters Sparta and Tiasa.

Eurotas bequeathed the kingdom to Lacedaemon, the son of Zeus and Taygete, after whom Mount Taygetus was named, according to Pausanias. This Lacedaemon married his daughter Sparta and renamed the state after his wife.

Pausanias says: "It was Eurotas who channelled away the marsh-water from the plains by cutting through to the sea, and when the land was drained he called the river which was left running there the Eurotas." The "cutting through" is seen by Pausanias' translator and commentator, Peter Levy, S.J., as an explanation of Eurotas (or Vrodamas) Canyon, a ravine north of Skala where the river has cut through the foothills of Taygetus after changing direction to the west of the valley.