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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Said to be from ωτος (ōtos, “infinite, insatiable”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔ̂ː.tos/ → /ˈo.tos/ → /ˈo.tos/
Proper noun
Ὦτος • (Ôtos) m (genitive Ὤτου); second declension
- Otus
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “Ὦτος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019
- Ὦτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ^ Nouveau dictionnaire grec moderne-français et français grec moderne. (1882). France: Garnier, p. 134
- ^ Pickering, J. (1829). A Greek and English Lexicon: Adapted to the Authors Read in the Colleges and Schools of the United States, and to Other Greek Classics. United States: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, p. 80