ἄνθος

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Hellenic *ántʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éndʰos. Cognate with Vedic Sanskrit अन्धस् (ándhas, “Soma, grass, herb”), Albanian endë, Old Armenian անդ (and, “field”), possibly Old Frisian åndul.

Noun

ᾰ̓́νθος • (ánthos) n (genitive ᾰ̓́νθεος or ᾰ̓́νθους); third declension

1. flower, blossom, bloom

   Synonym: ἄνθεμον (ánthemon)

2. froth, scum
3. bloom, peak
4. brightness, brilliance

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Greek: άνθος (ánthos)
• →⇒ English: anther, antherid
• New Latin: Chionanthus

Etymology 2

Noun

ᾰ̓́νθος • (ánthos) m (genitive ᾰ̓́νθου); second declension

1. a small bird, possibly the yellow wagtail.

Inflection

Descendants

• → Latin: anthus

Further reading

• (noun 1) “ἄνθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• (noun 2) “ἄνθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἄνθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἄνθος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἄνθος 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
• ἄνθος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἄνθος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἄνθος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G438 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.
  • bloom idem, page 84.
  • blossom idem, page 85.
  • cream idem, page 182.
  • flower idem, page 329.
  • pick idem, page 611.
  • quintessence idem, page 667.
• 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
• Hofmann, J. B. (1949) “ἄνθος”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Griechischen‎ (in German), Munich: R. Oldenbourg