ἐρατός

Validation

Yes

Word-form

Ἥρα

Transliteration (Word)

Hēra

English translation (word)

Hera

Transliteration (Etymon)

eratos

English translation (etymon)

lovely

Author

Plato

Century

4 BC

Source

Idem

Ref.

Cratylus 404b-c

Ed.

J. Burnet, Platonis Opera, Oxford UP, 1903

Quotation

Ἥρα δὲ ἐρατή τις, ὥσπερ οὖν καὶ λέγεται ὁ Ζεὺς αὐτῆς ἐρασθεὶς ἔχειν

Comment

This is no more than a wordplay, based on the narrative mythology of the Olympian gods

Modern etymology

Hēra is a goddess of maturity, whose name is related to hōra "season", and in other Indo-European languages to the name of the year in Germanic, Germ. Jahr, Engl. year. One reconstructs a PIE etymon *Hieh1r-eh2

Persistence in Modern Greek

The name of the goddess is kept in Modern Greek

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