βροτός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *mrətós, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥twós or *mr̥tós (“dead, mortal”), ultimately from the root *mer- (“to die”). Cognates include Sanskrit मृत (mṛtá), Old Armenian մարդ (mard), Latin mortuus, Old Church Slavonic мрътвъ (mrŭtvŭ), Persian مرد (mard) and Old English morþ.

Pronunciation

Noun

βροτός • (brotós) m or f (genitive βροτοῦ); second declension

1. (poetic) mortal man, human being (often in plural)
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.32:

     ὢ πόποι, οἷον δή νυ θεοὺς βροτοὶ αἰτιόωνται.

     ṑ pópoi, hoîon dḗ nu theoùs brotoì aitióōntai.

     Alas, how mortals are always blaming the gods.

Inflection

Antonyms

• θεός (theós), ἀθάνατος (athánatos)

Derived terms

See also

• βρότος (brótos)

References

• “βροτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βροτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “βροτός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• βροτός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• βροτός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• βροτός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “βροτός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter