- νήριτος
- νήριτοςGrammatical information: adj.Meaning: `uncountable' (Hes. Op. 511, A. R.).Compounds: As 1. member in νηριτόφυλλον πολύφυλλον H. and νηριτόμυθος (H.); cf. also νηρίται μεγάλοι H. (after Redard 117 to be changed into νήριται μεγάλαι).Origin: IE [Indo-European] [60 to be corr.] *h₂ri- `count'.Etymology: From *n̥-h₂ri-tos (-άρι-τος), compound of privative n̥- (s. νη-) and a verb ἀρι- `count' (s. ἀριθμός) with το-suffix; thus in εἰκοσιν-ήριτος `twenty(fold) counted' (X 349; compos. lengthening), Arc. Έπάριτοι = ἐπίλεκτοι a.o. From there prob. through reinterpretation the mountain name Νήριτον (B 632, Od.) and the PN Νήριτος (ρ 207); s. Leumann Hom. Wörter 243ff.; also Ruijgh L'élém. ach. 161 f.Page in Frisk: 2,
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.