ἔντερον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Neuter substantive of *ἔντερος (*énteros, “inside”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros, from *h₁én (whence also ἐν (en, “in”)) + *-teros (whence also -τερος (-teros, “comparative suffix”)). Cognates include Russian ятро́ (jatró), Sanskrit अन्त्र (ántra, “entrails”), Old Armenian ընդերք (ənderkʻ, “entrails”), and Latin interāneum (“entrails”), whence English entrails.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /én.te.ron/ → /ˈen.te.ron/ → /ˈen.de.ron/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /én.te.ron/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈen.te.ron/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈen.te.ron/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈen.te.ron/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈen.de.ron/

Noun

ἔντερον • (énteron) n (genitive ἐντέρου); second declension

1. (usually in the plural) guts, viscera, intestine, gut, belly, bowel, womb

   Synonyms: ἐγκοίλῐᾰ (enkoília), σπλάγχνον (splánkhnon), χολᾰ́ς (kholás)

2. bag

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ἔντερον; τοῦ ἐντέρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἔντερον tò énteron	τὼ ἐντέρω tṑ entérō	τᾰ̀ ἔντερᾰ tà éntera
Genitive	τοῦ ἐντέρου toû entérou	τοῖν ἐντέροιν toîn entéroin	τῶν ἐντέρων tôn entérōn
Dative	τῷ ἐντέρῳ tôi entérōi	τοῖν ἐντέροιν toîn entéroin	τοῖς ἐντέροις toîs entérois
Accusative	τὸ ἔντερον tò énteron	τὼ ἐντέρω tṑ entérō	τᾰ̀ ἔντερᾰ tà éntera
Vocative	ἔντερον énteron	ἐντέρω entérō	ἔντερᾰ éntera
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• δυσεντερία (dusentería)
• ἐντέρῐνος (entérinos)
• ἐντεροκήλη (enterokḗlē)
• ἔντερον γῆς (énteron gês)

 

Descendants

• Greek: έντερο (éntero)

Further reading

• “ἔντερον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἔντερον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἔντερον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἔντερον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἔντερον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἔντερον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bowels idem, page 92.
  • entrails idem, page 278.
  • intestines idem, page 453.