ἔτυμος

ἔτυμος, ον, also η, ον S. Ph. 205 (lyr.) (only in neut. in Hom.):— poet. Adj. A. true, ψεύσομαι, ἦ ἔτυμον ἐρέω; Il. 10.534; φάμʼ ἔτυμον S. Ant. 1320 (lyr.), cf. Call. Fr. 1.39 P.; ψεύδεα πολλὰ λέγων ἐτύμοισιν ὁμοῖα Od. 19.203, cf. Hes. Th. 27, Thgn. 713; οἵ ῥʼ ἔτυμα κραίνουσι those [dreams] have true issues, Od. 19.567; γνώσει τάδʼ ὡς ἔ. A. Pr. 295 (anap.); ἔ. λόγος Stesich. 32, Pi. P. 1.68; ἔ. ἄγγελος, φήμη, φάτις, A. Th. 82 (lyr.), E. El. 818, Ar. Pax 114 (anap.); βάλλει μʼ ἐτύμα φθογγά S. Ph. 205 (lyr.); πάθεα A. Eu. 496; τέχνη Dor. ap. Pl. Phdr. 260e; ὡς ἔτυμʼ ἑστάκαντι how natural . . , Theoc. 15.82. 2. neut. ἔτυμον, as Adv., ἀλλʼ ἔτυμόν τοι ἦλθʼ Ὀδυσεύς Od. 23.26; οὔ σʼ ἔτυμόν γε φάμεν πεπνῦσθαι Il. 23.440; ὡς ἔτυμον AP 7.352: regul. Adv. -μως Xenoph. 8.4, Pi. O. 6.77, A. Th. 918 (lyr.), B. 12.228, etc.; ὡς ἐτύμως A. Eu. 534 (lyr.). II. ἔτυμον, τό, as Subst., the true sense of a word according to its origin, its etymology, D.S. 1.11, Plu. 2.278c, Ath. 13.571d. Adv. -μως etymologically, Arist. Mu. 400a6, Str. 9.2.17, Ph. 1.30: Comp. -ώτερον EM 526.2: Sup. -ώτατα Nicom. Ar. 2.27.—Never in Att. Prose; in later writers only in signf. II, exc. in Pl. Ax. 366b.