Ἄθως
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See also: Άθως
Ancient Greek
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.tʰɔːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.tʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.θos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.θos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.θos/
Proper noun
Ἄθως • (Áthōs) m (genitive Ἄθω); Attic declension
- Athos, a character in Greek mythology
- Athos (a peninsula in Greece, containing Mount Athos)
- Mount Athos (a mountain and peninsula in northeastern Greece) which is an important centre of Greek Orthodox monasticism.
Inflection
Derived terms
- Ἄθωος (Áthōos)
Descendants
Further reading
- “Ἄθως”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ἄθως”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Ἄθως”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Ἄθως 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 1,003