Τιθωνός
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Furnée compares τιτώ (titṓ, “day”); because of the variation τ/θ, the word could be Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tiː.tʰɔː.nós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ti.tʰoˈnos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ti.θoˈnos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ti.θoˈnos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ti.θoˈnos/
Proper noun
Τῑθωνός • (Tīthōnós) m (genitive Τῑθωνοῦ); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Τῑθωνός ho Tīthōnós | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Τῑθωνοῦ toû Tīthōnoû | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Τῑθωνῷ tôi Tīthōnôi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Τῑθωνόν tòn Tīthōnón | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Τῑθωνέ Tīthōné | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: Τιθωνός (Tithonós)
- → Latin: Tithonus
- Armenian: Թիֆոնոս (Tʻifonos)
- French: Tithon
- Hungarian: Tithónosz
- Italian: Titone, Titono
- Russian: Тифон (Tifon), Титон (Titon)
- Spanish: Titono, Titón
Further reading
- “Τιθωνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Τιθωνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Τιθωνός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,028
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- http://opsopaus.com/OM/BA/Plethon/Tithonos.html