- πενθερός
- πενθερόςGrammatical information: m.Meaning: `father-in-law = father of the wife' (cf. ἑκυρός), also `brother-in-law, son-in-law' (Il.; cf. Chantraine Études 15).Derivatives: From it πενθερ-ά, Ion. -ή f. `mother-in-law' (D., Call.), -ιδεύς m. `son-in-law' (inscr. As. Minor, imper. time.), -ίδης m. `id.' (pap. VIp; Schwyzer 510); -ιος (Arat.), -ικός (Man.) `belonging to the π.'.Origin: IE [Indo-European] [127] *bʰendʰ- `bind'Etymology: Old name of relatives, formally almost completely agreeing with Lith. beñdras `participant, sharer'; beside it with u-suffix Skt. bándhu- m. `relative'; on the variation ero: u s. Schwyzer 482 n. 3 w. lit., Leumann Hom. Wörter 115. Derivations of the verb for `bind' in Skt. badhnā́ti, perf. ba-bándh-a, Av. bandayeiti, Germ., e.g. Goth. bindan; so prop. "the allied". The verb was lost in Greek as in most IE languages, but left several nouns, s. πεῖσμα, [not φάτνη] and W.-Hofmann s. offendix. -- The oxytonation of πενθερός after ἑκυρός; s. v. and Schwyzer 381.Page in Frisk: 2,504
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.