Ἄθως

See also: Άθως

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Ἄθως • (Áthōs) m (genitive Ἄθω); Attic declension

  1. Athos, a character in Greek mythology
  2. Athos (a peninsula in Greece, containing Mount Athos)
  3. Mount Athos (a mountain and peninsula in northeastern Greece) which is an important centre of Greek Orthodox monasticism.

Inflection

Attic second declension of ὁ Ἄθως; τοῦ Ἄθω (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Ἄθως
ho Áthōs
Genitive τοῦ Ἄθω
toû Áthō
Dative τῷ Ἄθῳ
tōî Áthōi
Accusative τὸν Ἄθω / Ἄθων
tòn Áthō(n)
Vocative Ἄθως
Áthōs
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

  • Ἄθωος (Áthōos)
  • Ἄθωνίτης (Áthōnítēs)

Descendants

  • Greek: Άθως m (Áthos), Άθωνας m (Áthonas)
  • → Latin: Athōs

Further reading

  • “Ἄθως”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Ἄθως”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “Ἄθως”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Ἄθως in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,003
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