ταώς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • τᾰῶς (tăôs)
  • τᾰών (tăṓn)
  • τᾰὧς (tăhôs) — Attic

Etymology

From an earlier *ταϝώς (*tawṓs), of Pre-Greek origin; possibly from an Oriental source, perhaps from Dravidian (compare Tamil தோகை (tōkai, “("peacock”))[1] or a Turkic source (compare Turkish tavuk (“hen”)). Cognates include Latin pāvus, pāvō, and perhaps Hebrew טַוָּס (ṭawwā́s), Aramaic טַוסָא (ṭawsā), Arabic طَاوُوس (ṭāwūs).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

τᾰώς • (tăṓs) m (genitive τᾰώ); second declension

  1. peacock
  2. type of fish

Inflection

Attic second declension of ὁ τᾰώς; τοῦ τᾰώ (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ τᾰώς
ho tăṓs 		τὼ τᾰώ
tṑ tăṓ 		οἱ τᾰῴ
hoi tăōí
Genitive τοῦ τᾰώ
toû tăṓ 		τοῖν τᾰῴν
toîn tăōín 		τῶν τᾰών
tôn tăṓn
Dative τῷ τᾰῴ
tōî tăōí 		τοῖν τᾰῴν
toîn tăōín 		τοῖς τᾰῴς
toîs tăōís
Accusative τὸν τᾰώ / τᾰών
tòn tăṓ(n) 		τὼ τᾰώ
tṑ tăṓ 		τοὺς τᾰώς
toùs tăṓs
Vocative τᾰώς
tăṓs 		τᾰώ
tăṓ 		τᾰῴ
tăōí
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ταώς”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1457

Further reading

Greek

Etymology

Ancient Greek ταώς (taṓs).

Noun

ταώς • (taós) m (uncountable) (archaic, obsolete)

  1. (astronomy) the constellation Pavo or the peacock
  2. peacock

Declension

Declension of ταώς
singular
nominative ταώς (taós)
genitive ταώ (taó)
accusative ταώ (taó)
vocative ταώ (taó)

Synonyms

Further reading

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