Ἔρεβος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the common name ἔρεβος ‘the dark of the underworld’, itself from Proto-Indo-European *h₁régʷos. Cognate with Old Armenian երեկ (erek, “evening”), Sanskrit रजस् (rájas, “dimness, darkness, mist”) and Old Norse røkkr (“twilight”).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Ἔρεβος • (Érebos) n (genitive Ἐρέβους); third declension

  1. Erebus

Inflection
Third declension of τὸ Ἔρεβος; τοῦ Ἐρέβους (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τὸ Ἔρεβος
tò Érebos		 τὼ Ἐρέβει
tṑ Erébei		 τᾰ̀ Ἐρέβη
tà Erébē
Genitive τοῦ Ἐρέβους
toû Erébous		 τοῖν Ἐρεβοῖν
toîn Ereboîn		 τῶν Ἐρεβῶν
tôn Erebôn
Dative τῷ Ἐρέβει
tôi Erébei		 τοῖν Ἐρεβοῖν
toîn Ereboîn		 τοῖς Ἐρέβεσῐ / Ἐρέβεσῐν
toîs Erébesi(n)
Accusative τὸ Ἔρεβος
tò Érebos		 τὼ Ἐρέβει
tṑ Erébei		 τᾰ̀ Ἐρέβη
tà Erébē
Vocative Ἔρεβος
Érebos		 Ἐρέβει
Erébei		 Ἐρέβη
Erébē
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • Greek: Έρεβος (Érevos)
  • → English: Erebos
  • → Latin: Erebus

Further reading
  • “Ἔρεβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Ἔρεβος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,010
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