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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from μόθος (móthos, “battle din”). However, Lewy proposes a Semitic origin, comparing the word with Hebrew עתק (ataq, “to set free”) and suggesting that μόθαξ (móthax) was the original word.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mó.tʰɔːn/ → /ˈmo.θon/ → /ˈmo.θon/
Noun
μόθων • (móthōn) m (genitive μόθωνος); third declension
- (at Sparta) children of helots, brought up as foster-brothers of the young Spartans
- (in Attica) presumptuous, impudent fellow
- kind of licentious dance
- kind of tune for the flute
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Further reading
- “μόθων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μόθων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μόθων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
- Lewy, Heinrich (1895) Die semitischen Fremdwörter im Griechischen (in German), Berlin: R. Gaertner’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 73