εἶδος

See also: είδος and εἰδός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *wéidos, from Proto-Indo-European *wéydos (“seeing, image”), from *weyd- (“to see”). Cognate to Sanskrit वेदस् (védas), Proto-Slavic *vidъ.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /êː.dos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈi.dos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ðos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ðos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ðos/

Noun

εἶδος • (eîdos) n (genitive εἴδους or εἴδεος); third declension

That which is seen: form, image, shape
appearance, look, beauty (comeliness)
sight
fashion, sort, kind
species
wares, goods

Inflection

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Third declension of τὸ ϝεἶδος; τοῦ ϝεἴδιος (Laconian)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ϝεἶδος tò weîdos	τὼ ϝεἴδει tṑ weídei	τᾰ̀ ϝεἴδη tà weídē
Genitive	τοῦ ϝεἴδιος toû weídios	τοῖν ϝεἰδίοιν toîn weidíoin	τῶν ϝεἰδίων tôn weidíōn
Dative	τῷ ϝεἴδει tôi weídei	τοῖν ϝεἰδίοιν toîn weidíoin	τοῖς ϝεἴδεσῐ / ϝεἴδεσῐν toîs weídesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ ϝεἶδος tò weîdos	τὼ ϝεἴδει tṑ weídei	τᾰ̀ ϝεἴδη tà weídē
Vocative	ϝεἶδος weîdos	ϝεἴδει weídei	ϝεἴδη weídē
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Derived terms

-ειδής (-eidḗs)
εἰδύλλιον (eidúllion)
εἴδωλον (eídōlon)
εἰδητῐκός (eidētikós)

Descendants

→ Greek: είδος (eídos)
English: eidos

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“εἶδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“εἶδος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
εἶδος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
εἶδος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
εἶδος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
“εἶδος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G1491 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- abstract idem, page 4.
- appearance idem, page 35.
- aspect idem, page 44.
- branch idem, page 93.
- class idem, page 135.
- fashion idem, page 308.
- figure idem, page 319.
- form idem, page 338.
- idea idem, page 413.
- image idem, page 416.
- kind idem, page 469.
- manner idem, page 512.
- pattern idem, page 599.
- personal idem, page 608.
- set idem, page 756.
- shape idem, page 762.
- sort idem, page 795.
- species idem, page 799.
- stature idem, page 813.
- type idem, page 904.
- variety idem, page 944.
εἶδος - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.

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