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From Latin Olympus, from Ancient Greek Ὄλυμπος (Ólumpos), likely of Pre-Greek origin.

• IPA^(key): /əˈlɪmpəs/

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Olympus

1. The highest mountain in Greece; in Ancient Greek mythology the home of the gods.
   • 1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 731:

     Sleeping-car passengers, however, will know little of their entry into Greece until, at 6 a.m. on the third morning after leaving Paris, the short train runs over the Vardar plain, with dawn glimpses of Mount Athos to the east and of cloud-capped Olympus across the gulf to the south, past the rebuilt yard and into the new passenger station at Salonica.

1. Olympic
2. Olympia

• Olympos

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὄλυμπος (Ólumpos, “Olympus”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /oˈlym.pus/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈlim.pus/,

Olympus m sg (genitive Olympī); second declension

1. Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece, thought of as the home of the gods in Ancient Greek mythology.
2. (by transference from the previous sense) heaven
3. One of various other mountains of the same name

Olympus f sg (genitive Olympī); second declension

1. A city name taken from the name of a neighboring mountain

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• “Olympus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Olympus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.