ποταμός

Uncertain. Most commonly explained as related to πῑ́πτω (pī́ptō, “to fall”) or πόντος (póntos, “sea”)/Proto-Indo-European *pónteh₁s (“path, bridge”). Alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *kweth₂- (“to bubble, foam”).

ποτᾰμός • (potămós) m (genitive ποτᾰμοῦ); second declension

1. river, stream
2. canal

• ῐ̔πποπότᾰμος (hĭppopótămos)
• μεσοποτάμιος (mesopotámios)

• “ποταμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ποταμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ποταμός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ποταμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ποταμός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ποταμός”, in Valerius Harpocration (edition, 1853) Wilhelm Dindorf, editor, Harpocrationis Lexicon in decem oratores Atticos, Oxford: Wilhelm Dindorf
• “ποταμός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G4215 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• ποταμός in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • river idem, page 718.
  • stream idem, page 824.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1225–1226
• Watkins, Calvert, ed., The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, 2nd ed., Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000
• Kümmel, Martin Joachim (2011–2024) “*ku̯ath₂ > *ku̯eth₂-”, in Addenda und Corrigenda zu LIV²‎^[2]

From Ancient Greek ποταμός (potamós).

ποταμός • (potamós) m (plural ποταμοί)

1. alternative form of ποτάμι (potámi) (river)

• παραπόταμος (parapótamos)

• ποταμός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el