Ancient Greek

Noun

ἔθνος • ‎(éthnos) n ‎(genitive ἔθνεος or ἔθνους); third declension

1. group of people: tribe, family
2. group of animals: flock, herd
3. country, nation
4. (later, in the plural) foreign nations, barbarians
5. (Jewish and Christian usage, in the plural) gentiles, heathen
6. class, caste

Inflection

Derived terms

• ἐθνάρχης ‎(ethnárkhēs)
• ἐθναρχία ‎(ethnarkhía)
• ἐθνηδόν ‎(ethnēdón)
• ἐθνικός ‎(ethnikós)
• ἐθνίτης ‎(ethnítēs)
• ἐθνοφύλαξ ‎(ethnophúlax)

Descendants

• Coptic: ⲉⲑⲛⲟⲥ ‎(ethnos)
• French: ethnie f
• Greek: έθνος ‎(éthnos)
• Russian: э́тнос ‎(étnos)

from the spoken alternative form ἕθνος ‎(héthnos):

• Aramaic:
  • Classical Syriac: ܗܬܢܘܣ ‎(haṯnōs)
• Coptic: ϩⲉⲑⲛⲟⲥ ‎(hethnos)
• Old Armenian: հեթանոս ‎(hetʿanos)
  • Armenian: հեթանոս ‎(hetʿanos)

References

• ἔθνος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἔθνος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἔθνος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἔθνος» 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
• «ἔθνος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «ἔθνος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• ἔθνος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G1484”, 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.
  • caste idem, page 117.
  • class idem, page 135.
  • folk idem, page 332.
  • nation idem, page 551.
  • order idem, page 578.
  • people idem, page 604.
  • race idem, page 667.
  • tribe idem, page 894.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 377–378