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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Greek, probably from Ancient Greek ἀδαμάστωρ (adamástōr) (attested as an epithet of Hekate),[1] probably from the same root as Ancient Greek ἀδάμαστος (adámastos, “indomitable”), ending in the agent-noun suffix -τωρ (-tōr).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Damā̆stō̆r m sg (genitive Damā̆storis); third declension
- (Greek mythology) name of a giant
c. 370 CE – c. 404 CE,
Claudian,
Gigantomachy :
- quod timuit, iam totus erat; saevusque Damastor,
ad depellendos iaculum cum quaereret hostes,
Germani rigidum misit pro rupe cadaver.
5th century AD,
Sidonius Apollinaris,
Carmina XV Epithalamium.20:
- hic rotat excussum vibrans in sidera Pindum
Enceladus, rabido fit missilis Ossa Typhoeo;
Porphyrion Pangaea rapit, Rhodopenque Damastor
Strymonio cum fonte levat, veniensque superne
intorto calidum restinguit flumine fulmen- 1936 translation by W. B. Anderson
- In one part Enceladus brandishes Pindus, torn from its base, and sends it whirling to the stars, while Ossa is the missile of frenzied Typhoeus; Porphyrion snatches up Pangaeus, Damastor lifts up Rhodope along with Strymon’s spring, and when the glowing thunderbolt comes down he hurls the river at it and quenches it.
c. 1562, Giuseppe Sporeni,
Carmina 1.2. Crucis adoratio.107:
- Fronte dolor, qualem peritura Belides urna
Porphyrionque Athamasque ferunt saevusque Damastor
Et Coeo cum fratre Dymas, qualem excipit ingens
Sisyphus Aegeonque et opaca silentia durae
Persephones atroque gementes sulphure manes.
Declension
Third-declension noun, singular only.
References
- ^ Hilton, John (2009) “Adamastor, Gigantomachies, and the Literature of Exile in Camões' Lusíads”, in Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association