Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἐρῑ́κη ‎(erī́kē) Later poetic

Noun

ἐρείκη • ‎(ereíkē) f ‎(genitive ἐρείκης); first declension

1. (botany) heath, Erica arborea
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 295
   • 446 BCE – 411 BCE, Eupolis, Collected Works 14.4
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 5.64
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 1.14.2
   • 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Materia medica 1.88

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Latin: erīcē
  • Translingual: Erica, Erica arborea

References

• ἐρείκη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «ἐρείκη» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • heather idem, page 393.

1. ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἐρείκη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 452
2. ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, ISBN 978-90-04-17336-1, page 431
3. ↑ Derksen, Rick (2008), “*vȇrsъ, *vȇrskъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ISBN 978 90 04 15504 6, page 516
4. ↑ Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ISBN 978 90 04 27898 1, page 507