Ἄδωνις
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Believed to be from Phoenician 𐤀𐤃𐤍 (ʾdn /adōn/, “lord”), from Proto-Semitic *ʾadan- (“to rule, judge”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.dɔː.nis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.do.nis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.ðo.nis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.ðo.nis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.ðo.nis/
Proper noun
Ἄδωνῐς • (Ádōnis) m (genitive Ἀδώνῐδος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Ἄδωνῐς ho Ádōnis | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Ἀδώνῐδος toû Adṓnidos | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Ἀδώνῐδῐ tôi Adṓnidi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Ἄδωνῐν / Ἄδωνῐδα tòn Ádōnin / Ádōnida | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Ἄδωνῐ Ádōni | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Ἀδώνια (Adṓnia)
Descendants
Further reading
- “Ἄδωνις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ἄδωνις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Ἄδωνις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 999