ἐλεύθερος

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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From Proto-Hellenic *eléutʰeros, adjectival formation from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (to grow up; people, tribe); the original meaning of the word was "belonging to the tribe". Cognates include Latin līber, Old Church Slavonic людинъ (ljudinŭ, free man), and Old English leōd.[1]

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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ἐλεύθερος (eleútherosm (feminine ἐλευθέρᾱ, neuter ἐλεύθερον); first/second declension

  1. free
  2. (substantive) freedom
  3. fit for a freeman

Declension

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: Eleuthera
  • Greek: ελεύθερος (eléftheros)
  • Translingual: Eleutherozoa

References

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  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἐλεύθερος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 408

Further reading

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