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ἔτυ^μος , ον, also η, ον S.Ph.205 (lyr.) (only in neut. in Hom.):— poet. Adj.
A.true, ψεύσομαι, ἦ ἔτυμον ἐρέω; Il.10.534; “φάμ᾽ 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 ῥ᾽ ἔτυμα κραίνουσι those [dreams] have true issues, Od.19.567; γνώσει τάδ᾽ 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.Pax114 (anap.); “βάλλει μ᾽ ἐτύμα φθογγά” S.Ph.205 (lyr.); “πάθεα” A.Eu.496; τέχνη Dor. ap. Pl.Phdr.260e; ὡς ἔτυμ᾽ ἑστάκαντι how natural . . , Theoc.15.82.
2. neut. ἔτυμον, as Adv., “ἀλλ᾽ ἔτυμόν τοι ἦλθ᾽ Ὀδυσεύς” Od.23.26; “οὔ σ᾽ ἔτυμόν γε φάμεν πεπνῦσθαι” Il.23.440; “ὡς ἔτυμον” AP7.352: 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 EM526.2: Sup. -ώτατα Nicom.Ar.2.27.—Never in Att. Prose; in later writers only in signf. 11, exc. in Pl.Ax.366b.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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