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ἔαρ

ἔαρ

See also: έαρ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • εἶαρ (eîar)
  • ἦαρ (êar)
  • ἴαρα (íara)

Noun

ἔαρ (éar) n (genitive ἔαρος); third declension

  1. blood, gore
    • Oppian of Corcyrus, Halieutica 2.616–18
      οἱ μὲν γὰρ ἐπαΐγδην γενύεσσι
      σάρκας ἀφαρπάζουσι καὶ ἀρτιχύτοιο φόνοιο
      θερμὸν ἔαρ λάπτουσιν·
      They rush upon him and rend his flesh with their jaws and lap the warm gore of new-shed blood.
  2. juice
Inflection

Etymology 2

From Proto-Hellenic *wéhər, from Proto-Indo-European *wésr̥. Cognates include Latin ver, Persian بهار (bahâr), Sanskrit वसन्त (vasantá) and वसर् (vasar, morning), Old Norse vár, Old Armenian գարուն (garun), and Old Church Slavonic вєсна (vesna).

Alternative forms

Noun

ἔαρ (éar) n (genitive ἔαρος); third declension

  1. spring
    1. prime, freshness, flower
Inflection
Descendants

References

  • ἔαρ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ἔαρ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ἔαρ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ἔαρ in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • «ἔαρ» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • «ἔαρ» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • «ἔαρ» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
  • ἔαρ in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.