Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Αὔως ‎(Aúōs)
• Ἕως ‎(Héōs)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /iós/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iós/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iós/

Proper noun

Ἠώς • ‎(Ēṓs) f ‎(genitive Ἠοῦς); third declension

1. the goddess Eos

   800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.477, (Same line is repeated numerous times in both the Iliad and the Odyssey to announce a new day in the story.)

   ἦμος δ' ἠριγένεια φάνη ῥοδοδάκτυλος Ἠώς

   When rosy-fingered Dawn appeared early-born

Synonyms

• (Eos, goddess of the dawn): Ἠρῐγένειᾰ ‎(Ērigéneia)

Related terms

• ἠώς ‎(ēṓs)

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἕως ‎(héōs) Attic
• αὔως ‎(aúōs) Aeolic
• ᾱ̓ώς ‎(āṓs) Doric
• ᾱ̓́ας ‎(ā́as) Boeotian
• ᾱ̓βώρ ‎(ābṓr) Laconian

Noun

ἠώς • ‎(ēṓs) f ‎(genitive ἠοῦς); third declension (Epic, Ionic)

1. The morning red, daybreak, dawn
2. Dawn as a length of time: morning
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.66

     Ὄφρα μὲν ἠὼς ἦν καὶ ἀέξετο ῑ̔ερὸν ἦμαρ,

     While the dawn lasted and the holy day grew,

   1. (accusative, ἠῶ) through the morning
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.434

        παννυχίη μέν ῥ᾽ ἥ γε καὶ ἠῶ πεῖρε κέλευθον.

        All night and through the morning [the ship] clove her way.

3. A morning as a unit of time: day
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.493

     ἀλλ᾽ ὅτε δή ῥ᾽ ἐκ τοῖο δυωδεκάτη γένετ᾽ ἠώς,

     But when the twelfth dawn since then had come,

4. The direction of dawn, the East

Usage notes

Epic locative is ἠῶθι ‎(ēôthi).

Inflection

References

• ἠώς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἠώς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἠώς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἠώς» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963