ἔτης

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms
  • ἔτας (étas) – Doric
  • ϝέτας (wétas) – Elean

Etymology
PIE word
*swé

From Proto-Indo-European *swe-t-, from *swé. Cognate with Proto-Slavic *svatъ.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

ἔτης • (étēs) m (genitive ἔτου); first declension

  1. clansman
    • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer
  2. private person; citizen

Inflection
First declension of ὁ ἔτης; τοῦ ἔτου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ ἔτης
ho étēs		 τὼ ἔτᾱ
tṑ étā		 οἱ ἔται
hoi étai
Genitive τοῦ ἔτου
toû étou		 τοῖν ἔταιν
toîn étain		 τῶν ἐτῶν
tôn etôn
Dative τῷ ἔτῃ
tôi étēi		 τοῖν ἔταιν
toîn étain		 τοῖς ἔταις
toîs étais
Accusative τὸν ἔτην
tòn étēn		 τὼ ἔτᾱ
tṑ étā		 τοὺς ἔτᾱς
toùs étās
Vocative ἔτᾰ
éta		 ἔτᾱ
étā		 ἔται
étai
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἔτης”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 475
  • ἔτης in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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