Βάττος
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See also: βάτος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The name is said to mean "tongue-tied" or "stuttering, stammering," related to βατταρίζω (battarízō, “I stutter, say nonsense”), eventually imitative.[1] Herodotus and Pindar challenged this origin and promoted a folk etymology of the name being a translation for the Libyan/Berber word for "king."[2]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bát.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbat.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβat.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvat.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈva.tos/
Proper noun
Βᾰ́ττος • (Bắttos) m (genitive Βᾰ́ττου); second declension
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “Βάττος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Βάττος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- “Βάττος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,004
- ^ Graves, Robert (1960). The Greek Myths. Harmondsworth, London, England: Penguin Books. pp. s.v. Aristaeus.
- ^ Dougherty, C., Carol Dougherty Assistant Professor, D. o. G. a. L. W. C. (1993). The Poetics of Colonization: From City to Text in Archaic Greece. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, USA, p. 106