εὖ

See also: ευ, εὐ-, εὑ, ἐΰ, and ἐύ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ἐΰ (eǘ) — Epic

Etymology

Adverbial use of neuter accusative singular of ἐΰς (eǘs, “good”), from Proto-Hellenic *ehu-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁su- (“good”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /êu̯/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ew/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eβ/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ev/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ev/

Adverb

εὖ • (eû) (indeclinable)

well

Derived terms

εὐ- (eu-)

Descendants

English: eu-
Greek: ευ (ef)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “εὖ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 477

“εὖ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“εὖ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“εὖ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
εὖ 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
“εὖ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G2095 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- ably idem, page 2.
- adroitly idem, page 13.
- advantageously idem, page 14.
- arrange idem, page 41.
- capably idem, page 111.
- capitally idem, page 112.
- commendably idem, page 147.
- commodiously idem, page 148.
- creditably idem, page 183.
- estimably idem, page 283.
- excellently idem, page 288.
- fairly idem, page 302.
- finely idem, page 321.
- flourish idem, page 329.
- fortunately idem, page 340.
- gallantly idem, page 352.
- handsomely idem, page 383.
- happily idem, page 384.
- hopefully idem, page 405.
- impress idem, page 423.
- keep idem, page 467.
- laudably idem, page 478.
- luckily idem, page 503.
- meritoriously idem, page 526.
- nicely idem, page 557.
- off idem, page 569.
- profitably idem, page 653.
- propitiously idem, page 653.
- prosper idem, page 653.
- prosperously idem, page 653.
- reconcile idem, page 680.
- reputably idem, page 699.
- richly idem, page 712.
- righteously idem, page 715.
- rightly idem, page 715.
- satisfactorily idem, page 734.
- settle idem, page 758.
- skilfully idem, page 780.
- successfully idem, page 834.
- thrive idem, page 870.
- virtuously idem, page 954.
- well idem, page 973.

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “εὖ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 477

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