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- ε1396ἘννοσίγαιοςEarth-shaker[Meaning] he who moves the earth, creating earthquakes.
- ε1398ἘνοσίχθωνEarth-shaker[Meaning he who is] shaking the ground.
- ε1948Ἐπαμησάμενοςhaving heaped on (earth)[Meaning he] having stirred [it] up. Herodotus [sc. uses the word].
- ε2243Ἐπιβουλὴa plot [against someone]and e)pi/boulos ["a plotter"]. Also [sc. attested is the related verb] e)pibouleu/w soi ["I plot against you"]; [i.e. used] with a dative.
- ε656Ἐκτιναγμὸςdisturbance[Disturbance] and roiling-up of earth: [it is] a roiling-up of earth when it seethes with movement, but a 'disturbance' when it is tossed upward.
- ε162Ἔγρυπεit wrinkled"There was an earthquake," Melanthius says, "and the earth wrinkled." See under grupa/nion ["wrinkled"].
- ε1620Ἐξελοφίζετοused to be quarried out"The earth used to be quarried out of the earth-hills of Dikaiarcheia."
- ε3212Ἑστίαhearth, Hestia… altar, pot-stand, fireplace. "They portray Hestia -- that is, the earth -- as a woman holding a drum; since the earth gathers the winds under herself."
- ε1259Ἐνέροιςthose below… the dead. [So called] from their lying in [e)n] the earth [e)/ra].
- ε2276Ἐπιγύοιςcables, hawsers[Meaning with] the ones [projecting] from the earth. "They fastened most of it, also, into a junction with the cables [projecting] out of the earth." And elsewhere: "they secured the flank [facing] away from …
- ε3680ΕὐρεῖαwideHomer [writes]: "then may the wide earth gape for me." The [word] "wide" [here is] not a generic epithet, but is equivalent to "having become wide;" as if [to say] "may [earth] become a …
- ε195Ἔδαφοςfloor, foundation[Meaning] earth/ground.
- ε163Ἐγγύηsurety… a secure and reliable claim. [The term comes] from gh= ["earth"], [come] gu/h [a measure of land] and e)ggu/h. For the earth [is] more solid than the other elements.
- ε4074Ἑψῶνboiling… e(yw=, [the future] e(yh/sw. "Just like those boiling the gold-bearing earth."
- ε3687Εὐρίζῳwell-rooted… "with a well-rooted [sc. source of] joy for all the earth." Meaning with a long-lasting [one], [one that] has been rooted well.
- ε3395Εὔγειοςfertile[Meaning] a place having good earth. And in the neuter to\ eu)/geion, [meaning] the [location] lying towards the west.
- ε2777Ἐπιχθονίωνof land-bound[Meaning] of earth-bound.
- ε102Ἔγκλισιςinclination… the pole which is always visible was directly above the earth, but later it acquired its inclination. That is, a deviation.
- ε1180Ἔνδιοςdaytime… "So as long as it was still daytime, and the earth was warming up, the gleaming sky was brighter than crystal". That is, the radiant [sky].
- ε1643Ἐξεράσατε τοὺς λίθουςdisgorge the stones… expression is made from the [word] e)/ra, which is the earth.
- ε2966Ἔρημοςdesert… of its inhabitants; [the term comes] from the [noun] e)/ra ["earth"] Also [sc. attested is] e(rhmono/mois ["[in] desert-pasturing [ones]"], the wild animals that range over the desert.
- ε3954Ἐφόρουνthey were conveying… "they were conveying to the place wood and stones and earth and whatever else the piling on of which was likely to complete it".
- ε655Ἐκτίνωνpaying off… dative. [Meaning] giving back. "Paying off the debt to mother earth [he] buries the shipwrecked man." Also [sc. attested is the form] e)ktinnu/wn, [also meaning] giving back.
- ε2626Ἐπιστήμηscience, understanding… science, having first learned it from the immensity of the earth and the division of the lands, and then having written it down.
- ε3147Ἐσκευώρησενcontrived[Meaning he/she/it] plotted. Out of which also [sc. comes the cognate noun] skeuwri/a [contrivance], [meaning] a plot.
- ε1800Ἐξόνbeing allowed, being possible"Why on earth do we buy meat-hooks for our buckets, it being possible to let down an old woman like this and draw up the buckets from the wells?" In reference to lascivious and …
- ε3336Ἐτρύχωσενemaciated[Meaning he/she/it] wore [someone/something] out. "The earth, gripped with torments, was wearing them out most painfully".
- ε1123Ἐνάπτοντεςtying on… "They secured the rafts with the cables [projecting] from the earth, tying them on to those trees which had grown along the brink, with a view to [the structure] remaining steady".
- ε2103Ἐπεφόρησενpiled on… and having covered all of the surface she piled on earth, hiding what had been made."
- ε2659Ἐπὶ τὰ Μανδροβόλουon Mandrobolos' property… History of Samos 800-188 BC (Oxford 1987) appendix 2; 'Samian Earth' seems to have been a kind of fuller's earth. [2] A ram, because, according to a scholiast on Nicander's Alexipharmaka, this was the …