# ἑτοῖμος
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* ἕτοιμος (hétoimos) — Attic

### Etymology

No etymology. Has been compared to ἔτυμος (étumos, “true”), ἐτός (etós, “true”), but this is not very convincing. Kuiper derives the word from a locative *ἑτοῖ (*hetoî) (+ a suffix -μος (-mos)) to an unattested *ἑτος (*hetos), an alternative form of ἐτός (etós, “in vain, useless”), thus "being in the useless". This is semantically strange and formally ad hoc.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /he.tôi̯.mos/ → /eˈty.mos/ → /eˈti.mos/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /he.tôi̯.mos/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /(h)eˈty.mos/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /eˈty.mos/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /eˈty.mos/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /eˈti.mos/

### Adjective

ἑτοῖμος • (hetoîmos) m or f (neuter ἑτοῖμον); second declension
* at hand, ready, prepared
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.425
** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 66
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1079
** 1 CE – 200 CE, Aelius Herodianus, On Peculiar Style 2.938
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.453
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 6.12
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.119
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.123
** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 13.63
** 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Cyclops 357
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.31
** 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 72C
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.11
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.3
** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, To Philip 96
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 14.3
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 5.3.57
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.6.16
** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Prognostics 24
** 341 BCE – 270 BCE, Epicurus, Letters 3.62
** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 22.61
** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 2.34.2
** 55 CE – 56 CE, Paul the Apostle, Second Epistle to the Corinthians 10:6
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 448
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.20
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.9
** (of the future) sure to come, certain
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.96
*** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 66
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.425
*** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.706C
*** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 567A
*** 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 86
*** 110 CE – 180 CE, Pausanias Periegeta, Graeciae Descriptio 2.23.6
** (of the past) carried into effect, realised, feasible
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.53
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 8.384
* (of persons) ready, active, zealous
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 842
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 4.16
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.96
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 4.5.12
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 4.74
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.70
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 791
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 813
** 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 264
** 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, On the Choreutes 23
** 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 341
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.61
** 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 207B
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1079
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.10
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.45
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.86
** (of the mind) ready, bold
*** 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 458
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.123
*** 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 1106
*** 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Heroicus 8.1
*** 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 7.14
* (adverbial)
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.80
** 380 BCE – 318 BCE, Demades, Collected Works 4
** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 161
** New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 21:13
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 2.5.2
** 390 BCE, Plato, Hippias Major 300C
** 4th century BC, Isaeus, Nicostratus 14
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 290A

#### Derived terms

* ἑτοιμᾰ́ζω (hetoimắzō)
* ἑτοιμᾰσῐ́ᾱ (hetoimăsĭ́ā)
* ἑτοιμόδᾰκρῠς (hetoimódăkrŭs)
* ἑτοιμοεγρήγορος (hetoimoegrḗgoros)
* ἑτοιμοθᾰ́νᾰτος (hetoimothắnătos)
* ἑτοιμοκόλλῐξ (hetoimokóllĭx)
* ἑτοιμοκοπῐ́ᾱ (hetoimokopĭ́ā)
* ἑτοιμολόγος (hetoimológos)
* ἑτοιμομεμφής (hetoimomemphḗs)
* ἑτοιμοπειθής (hetoimopeithḗs)
* ἑτοιμόπτωτος (hetoimóptōtos)
* ἑτοιμοπωλεῖον (hetoimopōleîon)
* ἑτοιμοπώλης (hetoimopṓlēs)
* ἑτοιμότης (hetoimótēs)
* ἑτοιμοτόμος (hetoimotómos)
* ἑτοιμόφθᾰρτος (hetoimóphthărtos)

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἑτοῖμος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 476

### Further reading

* “ἑτοῖμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ἑτοῖμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “ἑτοῖμος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* ἑτοῖμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* ἑτοῖμος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “ἑτοῖμος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. alert idem, page 22.prepared idem, page 635.prompt idem, page 653.ready idem, page 675.willing idem, page 979.zealous idem, page 997.