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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *dṓtōr, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃tōr (“giver, donor”), from *deh₃- (“to give”) (whence also δίδωμι (dídōmi, “I give”)).
Cognates include Sanskrit दातृ (dā́tṛ) and Latin dator.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɔ̌ː.tɔːr/ → /ˈðo.tor/ → /ˈðo.tor/
Noun
δώτωρ • (dṓtōr) m (genitive δώτορος); third declension
- giver
Inflection
References
- “δώτωρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “δώτωρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “δώτωρ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- δώτωρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- δώτωρ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- δώτωρ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- 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