Ancient Greek

Adjective

ἐρῠθρός • ‎(eruthrós) m ‎(feminine ἐρῠθρᾱ́, neuter ἐρῠθρόν); first/second declension

1. reddish, red
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.365–367

     ἄλλον δ' ἐνθένδε χρυσὸν καὶ χαλκὸν ἐρυθρὸν
     ἠδὲ γυναῖκας ἐϋζώνους πολιόν τε σίδηρον
     ἄξομαι,

     From there I will bring more gold and red bronze and fair-girdled women and much iron,

   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.165–166

     αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ σῖτον καὶ ὕδωρ καὶ οἶνον ἐρυθρὸν
     ἐνθήσω μενοεικέ',

     And I'll put satisfying food and water and red wine on [the boat],

   • 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 449–450

     εὑρήσεις δέ με πᾶσιν ἐπ' ἔργμασιν ὥσπερ ἄπεφθον
     χρῡσὸν ἐρυθρὸν ἰδεῖν τρῑβόμενον βασάνῳ

     You will find me in all my actions like refined
     gold, red to the eye when rubbed against a touchstone

2. (substantive, ἐρυθρόν ᾠοῦ) egg yolk

Inflection

Descendants

• English: erythro-

References

• ἐρυθρός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἐρυθρός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἐρυθρός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἐρυθρός» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «ἐρυθρός» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἐρυθρός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G2063”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • florid idem, page 329.
  • lurid idem, page 505.
  • red idem, page 682.
  • ruddy idem, page 724.