Πάφος
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Uncertain. Perhaps a given name derived from πάθος (páthos, “Passion”). Traditional etymology links the town's name to the Greek goddess of passion Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē), as Paphos was the son of Pygmalion, a worshiper of the goddess.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pá.pʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpa.pʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpa.ɸos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpa.fos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpa.fos/
Proper noun
Πᾰ́φος • (Páphos) f (genitive Πᾰ́φου); second declension
Inflection
Derived terms
- Πᾰ́φῐος (Páphios)
Descendants
- Turkish: Baf
References
- “Πάφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Πάφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Πάφος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- G3974 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,020
- Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Paphus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray