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Ancient Greek
δάνος ( dános ) — Macedonian
Etymology
From the root of θνῄσκω ( thnḗiskō ) .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /tʰá.na.tos/ → /ˈθa.na.tos/ → /ˈθa.na.tos/
Noun
θᾰ́νᾰτος • (thánatos ) m (genitive θᾰνᾰ́του ) ; second declension ( Epic , Attic , Ionic , Doric , Koine )
death
corpse
Inflection
Derived terms
Further reading
“θάνατος ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940 ) A Greek–English Lexicon , Oxford: Clarendon Press
“θάνατος ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889 ) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon , New York: Harper & Brothers
“θάνατος ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891 ) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges , New York: Harper and Brothers
θάνατος 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
θάνατος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924 ) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition , Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“θάνατος ”, in Slater, William J. (1969 ) Lexicon to Pindar , Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G2288 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 .
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek θάνατος ( thánatos ) . Compare Mariupol Greek тъа́натос ( θánatos ) .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈθa.na.tos/
Hyphenation: θά‧να‧τος
Noun
θάνατος • (thánatos ) m (plural θάνατοι )
death
Declension
αθανασία f ( athanasía , “ immortality ” ) αθανατίζω ( athanatízo , “ to immortalise ” ) αθάνατος ( athánatos , “ immortal ” ) απαθανατίζω ( apathanatízo , “ to immortalise ” ) απαθανάτιση f ( apathanátisi , “ immortalisation ” ) απένθητος ( apénthitos , “ unmourned ” ) αποθανατίζω ( apothanatízo , “ to immortalise ” ) ευθανασία<g:f ( efthanasía<g:f , “ euthanasia ” ) θανατώνω ( thanatóno , “ to kill ” ) θνητός ( thnitós , “ mortal ” ) πενθέω ( penthéo , “ to mourn ” )
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