ἥρως: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[lord]], [[hero]] (Il.).<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">-ωος</b>, rarely <b class="b3">-ωνος</b>, <b class="b3">-ωνι</b>, <b class="b3">-ωτι</b> a. o. (details in Schwyzer 479f., 557, 582)<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[tiriseroe]]<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">ἡρώϊος</b>, <b class="b3">ἡρῳ̃ος</b> [[heroic]] (Pi., Pl.) with <b class="b3">ἡρώϊον</b>, <b class="b3">-ῶον</b> [[sanctuary of a hero]] (IA); <b class="b3">ἡρωϊκός</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Att., Arist.). Several feminine-formations (cf. on <b class="b3">βασιλεύς</b>): 1. <b class="b3">ἡρωΐς</b> (Pi.); 2. <b class="b3">ἡρωΐνη</b>, <b class="b3">ἡρῴνη</b>, <b class="b3">ἡροΐνα</b> (Ar., inscr.); 3. <b class="b3">ἡρώϊσσα</b>, <b class="b3">ἡρῳ̃σσα</b> (A. R., inscr.; cf. v. Wilamowitz Glaube 2, 9 n. 1); 4. <b class="b3">ἡρώασσα</b> (Creta); 5. <b class="b3">ἡρυς</b> (Lilybaeum IIa), prob. innovation (after <b class="b3">θῆλυς</b>, <b class="b3">γρηΰς</b>?); - <b class="b3">ἡρωϊασταί</b>, <b class="b3">ἡρωϊσταί</b> (<b class="b3">-οϊσταί</b>, <b class="b3">-ωσταί</b>) pl. `[[adorer of Heros]] (inscr. IVa); after the nouns in <b class="b3">-αστής</b>, <b class="b3">-ιστής</b>, s. Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 175ff.; <b class="b3">ἡρωϊσμός</b> [[adoration of heros]] (Mytilene); the verb <b class="b3">ἡρωΐζω</b> only Eust. 4, 1, as [[write epic poems]]. - PN <b class="b3">Ἥρυλλα</b> (Chantraine Formation 252).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Not from <b class="b3">ἡρωϜ-</b> as was assumed, because of the Myc. form. A Pre-Greek word.