- εὐθύς
- εὐθύς, -εῖα, -ύGrammatical information: adj.Meaning: `straight', also metaph. `just'; εὐθύς, -ύ also adv. (beside εὐθέως) `straightway, directly' of place and time (Pi., att.; vgl. Schwyzer 620f.).Compounds: Very often as 1. member, e. g. in εὐθυ-ωρία, s. v.Derivatives: εὐθύτης `straightness' (Arist.) and the denomin. εὐθύνω `make straight, direct, steer, chastise, punish' (Pi., att.; Schwyzer 733) with several derivv.: εὔθυνσις `make straight' (Arist.), εὐθυσμός `id.' (Ph.); εὐθυντήρ `steerer, chastiser' (Thgn., A., Man.) with εὐθυντήριος `making straight, steering' (A. Pers. 764), εὐθυντηρία f. `the part of a ship where the rudder was fixed' (E. IT 1356), `base-wall, base' (inscr.), -ιαῖος (Didyma); εὐθυντής = εὔθυνος (Pl. Lg. 945b, c), -τικός (Arist., D. H.). - More usual are the postverbal expressions εὔθυνος m. `revisor of the state' (Pl., Arist., inscr. since Va etc.), also `judge, chastiser' in gen. (A., E.); εὔθυνα f. `public responsibility, revision' (Att.; cf. Solmsen Wortforsch. 256, Schwyzer 421 A. 3).Origin: XX [etym. unknown]Etymology: No agreement outside Greek. It may have taken the place of ἰθὺς. Perh. cross of εἶθαρ and ἰθύς (s. vv.) with assimilation ει : υ \> ευ : υ (Schwyzer 256); εὐρύς is semantically farther. See Bq.Page in Frisk: 1,587
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.