ἑτοῖμος

See also: έτοιμος and ἕτοιμος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ἕτοιμος (hétoimos)

Etymology

Pre-Greek. Has been compared to ἔτυμος (étumos, “true”), ἐτός (etós, “true”), but this is not very convincing.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /he.tôi̯.mos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)ɛˈty.mos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eˈty.mos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /eˈty.mos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /eˈti.mos/

Adjective

ἑτοῖμος • (hetoîmos) m, f (neuter ἑτοῖμον); second declension

at hand, ready, prepared
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.425
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 66
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1079
- 1 CE – 200 CE, Aelius Herodianus, On Peculiar Style 2.938
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.453
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 6.12
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.119
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.123
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 13.63
- 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Cyclops 357
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.31
- 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 72C
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.11
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.3
- 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, To Philip 96
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 14.3
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 5.3.57
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.6.16
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Prognostics 24
- 341 BCE – 270 BCE, Epicurus, Letters 3.62
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 22.61
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 2.34.2
- New Testament, Second Epistle to the Corinthians 10:6
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 448
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.20
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.9
1. (of the future) sure to come, certain
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.96
  - 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 66
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.425
  - 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.706C
  - 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 567A
  - 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 86
  - 110 CE – 180 CE, Pausianas Periegeta, Description of Greece 2.23.6
2. (of the past) carried into effect, realised, feasible
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.53
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 8.384
(of persons) ready, active, zealous
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 842
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 4.16
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.96
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 4.5.12
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 4.74
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.70
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 791
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 813
- 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 264
- 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, On the Choreutes 23
- 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 341
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.61
- 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 207B
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1079
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.10
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.45
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.86
1. (of the mind) ready, bold
  - 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 458
  - 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.123
  - 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 1106
  - 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Heroicus 8.1
  - 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 7.14
(adverbial)
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.80
- 380 BCE – 318 BCE, Demades, Collected Works 4
- 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 161
- New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 21:13
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 2.5.2
- 390 BCE, Plato, Hippias Major 300C
- 4th century BC, Isaeus, Nicostratus 14
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 290A

Declension

Second declension of ἑτοῖμος; ἑτοῖμον (Attic)

Number	Singular		Dual		Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ἑτοῖμος hetoîmos	ἑτοῖμον hetoîmon	ἑτοίμω hetoímō	ἑτοίμω hetoímō	ἑτοῖμοι hetoîmoi	ἑτοῖμᾰ hetoîma
Genitive	ἑτοίμου hetoímou	ἑτοίμου hetoímou	ἑτοίμοιν hetoímoin	ἑτοίμοιν hetoímoin	ἑτοίμων hetoímōn	ἑτοίμων hetoímōn
Dative	ἑτοίμῳ hetoímōi	ἑτοίμῳ hetoímōi	ἑτοίμοιν hetoímoin	ἑτοίμοιν hetoímoin	ἑτοίμοις hetoímois	ἑτοίμοις hetoímois
Accusative	ἑτοῖμον hetoîmon	ἑτοῖμον hetoîmon	ἑτοίμω hetoímō	ἑτοίμω hetoímō	ἑτοίμους hetoímous	ἑτοῖμᾰ hetoîma
Vocative	ἑτοῖμε hetoîme	ἑτοῖμον hetoîmon	ἑτοίμω hetoímō	ἑτοίμω hetoímō	ἑτοῖμοι hetoîmoi	ἑτοῖμᾰ hetoîma
Derived forms	Adverb		Comparative		Superlative
Derived forms	ἑτοίμως hetoímōs		ἑτοιμότερος hetoimóteros		ἑτοιμότᾰτος hetoimótatos
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. The feminine occasionally takes distinct forms ἑτοίμη (hetoímē), etc.

References

ἑτοῖμος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἑτοῖμος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἑτοῖμος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ἑτοῖμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἑτοῖμος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
ἑτοῖμος 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.
- alert idem, page 22.
- prepared idem, page 635.
- prompt idem, page 653.
- ready idem, page 675.
- willing idem, page 979.
- zealous idem, page 997.
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill

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