Gordias

• Gordius

Borrowed from Latin Gordiās, from Ancient Greek Γορδίας (Gordías).

Gordias

1. (Greek mythology) The name of at least two members of the royal house of Phrygia, the best-known of which was reputedly the founder of the Phrygian capital city Gordium, the maker of the legendary Gordian knot, and the father of the legendary king Midas.

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• Gordius

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Γορδίᾱς (Gordíās).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡɔr.di.aːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡɔr.d̪i.as]

Gordiās m sg (genitive Gordiae); first declension

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Gordias

First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ās), singular only.

• “Gordias”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Gordias in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.