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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἄθεος (átheos, “godless, without a god”).
Pronunciation
Noun
atheos m (genitive atheī); second declension
- an atheist; one who rejected the gods worshipped by the wider society.
- 45 B.C.E., Cicero, De natura deorum, 1.63
- quid Diagoras atheos qui dictus est
- Diagoras, who is called an atheist,
Declension
Second-declension noun (Greek-type).
Descendants
References
- “atheos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- atheos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- atheos in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016