1. εἴρω · eirō — Beekes
The corpus record
εἴρω
eiro1
to string, attach
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Where it lives
- De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
- Cratylus 2 · 1.12/10k
- Odyssey 5 · 0.58/10k
- Nicomachean Ethics 2 · 0.36/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant
2. εἴρω · eirō — Chantraine
3. εἴρω · eirō — Chantraine
4. εἴρω · eirō — Frisk
5. εἴρω · eirō — LSJ
fasten together in rows, string, used by Hom. only in Ep. pf. Pass., ἠλέκτροισιν ἐερμένος [a necklace] strung with pieces of amber, Od. 18.296, and plpf. Pass., μετὰ δʼ ἠλέκτροισιν ἔερτο 15.460; περὶ στήθεσσιν ἔερτο [μίτρη] A.R. 3.868; τὸ εὖ εἰρόμενον a connected system, Plot. 2.3.7.
after Hom. in Act., στεφάνους εἴ. Pi. N. 7.77; εἴ. τὰ θεῖα Plu. An.procr. 2.1029c; insert, εἰς βρόχον εἴρας τὸν τράχηλον Zaleuc. ap. Stob. 4.2.19 ad fin., cf. PMag.Par. 1.259; esp. in speech, string together, ὁ εἴρας καὶ συνυφάνας ἕκαστα [λόγος] Ph. 1.499; θρῆνον J. BJ 6.5.3; πολλὰ ὀνόματα Philostr. VA 1.20, cf. 6.17; οἱ μηδὲ δύο σχεδὸν ῥήματα δεξιῶς εἴρειν δυνάμενοι S.E. M. 1.98:—Pass., εἰρομένη λέξις continuous, running style, i.e. not antithetic or with balanced periods, Arist. Rh. 1409a29.
εἰρόμενον, τό, ‘dossier’ of documents, Mitteis Chr. 184.9 (iii A.D.); εἰ. τραπεζιτικόν PLips. 9.22. (Etym. dub., cf. either Lat. sero or Lith. vérti ‘thread’.)
In the wild
- εἴρειν · eirein Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 173)
- εἴρων · eirōn Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1108a (DIORISIS sentence 553)
- εἴρων · eirōn Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1127a (DIORISIS sentence 1440)
- εἶρε · eire Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4.3 (DIORISIS sentence 3257)
- εἴρω · eirō Odyssey 11.137
- εἴρω · eirō Odyssey 13.7
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. εἴρω (scan pp. 439-440; entry #1947). Root candidates: *ser-, *sarwija-, *sarwa-.
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. εἴρω (scan pp. 339-340; entry #2332). Root candidates: *wré-, *yejo-.
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. εἴρω (scan p. 2209; entry #6968).