ἐρεύθω: Difference between revisions

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