Σεβαστός
See also: σεβαστός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Use of σεβᾰστός (sebăstós, “venerable, reverend, august”) as proper noun; see there for more. Calque of Latin Augustus.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /se.bas.tós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /se.basˈtos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /se.βasˈtos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /se.vasˈtos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /se.vasˈtos/
Proper noun
Σεβᾰστός • (Sebăstós) m (genitive Σεβᾰστοῦ); second declension
- Augustus; Sebastus
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ Σεβᾰστός ho Sebăstós | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Σεβᾰστοῦ toû Sebăstoû | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Σεβᾰστῷ tōî Sebăstōî | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Σεβᾰστόν tòn Sebăstón | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Σεβᾰστέ Sebăsté | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Σεβᾰστή (Sebăstḗ)
- Σεβᾰ́στειᾰ (Sebắsteiă)
- Σεβᾰστῐᾱνός (Sebăstĭānós)
Descendants
- Greek: Σεβαστός (Sevastós)
- Latin: Sebastus, Sebastiānus
- English: Sebastian
References
- G4575 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- augustus idem, page 53.