Τάνταλος
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tán.ta.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtan.ta.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈtan.ta.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈtan.ta.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈtan.da.los/
Proper noun
Τάντᾰλος • (Tántălos) m (genitive Ταντᾰ́λου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Τάντᾰλος ho Tántălos | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Ταντᾰ́λου toû Tantắlou | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Ταντᾰ́λῳ tôi Tantắlōi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Τάντᾰλον tòn Tántălon | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Τάντᾰλε Tántăle | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ταντᾰλείᾱ (tantăleíā)
- Ταντᾰ́λειος (Tantắleios)
- ταντᾰλῐ́ζω (tantălĭ́zō)
- ταντᾰλόομαι (tantălóomai)
- Ταντᾰλῐ́δης (Tantălĭ́dēs)
- Ταντᾰλῐ́ς (Tantălĭ́s)
Descendants
- → Bulgarian: Тантал (Tantal)
- → Czech: Tantalos
- → Danish: Tantalos
- → Dutch: Tantalus
- → Finnish: Tantalos
- → French: Tantale
- → German: Tantalos
- Greek: Τάνταλος (Tántalos)
- → Hebrew: טנטלוס
- → Italian: Tantalo
- → Latin: Tantalus
- → Lithuanian: Tantalas
- → Norwegian: Tantalos
- → Polish: Tantal
- → Portuguese: Tântalo
- → Russian: Танта́л (Tantál)
- → Serbo-Croatian: Тантал, Tantal
- → Sicilian: Tàntalu
- → Slovak: Tantalos
- → Slovene: Tantal
- → Spanish: Tántalo
- → Swedish: Tantalos
- → Turkish: Tantalos
- → Ukrainian: Тантал (Tantal)
References
- “Τάνταλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Τάνταλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Τάνταλος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- “Τάνταλος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,026
- Τάνταλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette