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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Of Pre-Greek origin; possibly from an Oriental source, perhaps from Dravidian (compare Tamil தோகை (tōkai, “("peacock”)) or a Turkic source (compare Turkish tavuk (“hen”)). Cognates include Latin pāvus, pāvō, and perhaps Hebrew טַוָּס (ṭawwā́s), Aramaic טַוסָא (ṭawsā), Arabic طَاوُوس (ṭāwūs).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ta.ɔ̌ːs/ → /taˈos/ → /taˈos/
Noun
τᾰώς • (taṓs) m (genitive τᾰώ); second declension
- peacock
- type of fish
Inflection
References
- “ταώς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ταώς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ταώς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ταώς”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1457
Greek
Etymology
Ancient Greek ταώς (taṓs).
Noun
ταώς • (taós) m (uncountable) (archaic, obsolete)
- (astronomy) the constellation Pavo or the peacock
- peacock
Declension
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