παρθένος

• παρσένος (parsénos) — Laconian

Conventionally reconstructed to Proto-Indo-European *pr̥-sptén-o-s, from Proto-Indo-European *pstḗn (breast).

Etruscan 𐌚𐌀𐌓𐌈𐌀𐌍𐌀 (farθana), 𐌚𐌀𐌓𐌈𐌍𐌄 (farθne, “virgin, maiden”) is usually explained as a loanword from Greek.

παρθένος • (parthénos) m or f (neuter παρθένον); second declension

1. maidenly
2. chaste

• παρθένῐος (parthénios)

παρθένος • (parthénos) f (genitive παρθένου); second declension

1. young, unmarried woman; maiden
2. virgin
3. pupil
4. epithet of various goddesses, most commonly of Athena
5. (astrology) the constellation Virgo

Παρθένος (Parthénos) was sometimes used as a masculine noun to denote a young, unmarried man in later Greek.

• → Coptic: ⲡⲁⲣⲑⲉⲛⲟⲥ (parthenos)
• → English: parthen-
• Greek: παρθένος (parthénos)

• “παρθένος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “παρθένος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “παρθένος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• παρθένος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• παρθένος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “παρθένος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3933 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• παρθένος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • damsel idem, page 194.
  • girl idem, page 359.
  • maid idem, page 507.
  • maiden idem, page 508.
  • maidenly idem, page 508.
  • single idem, page 777.
  • unmarried idem, page 925.
  • virgin idem, page 954.
  • virginal idem, page 954.

From Ancient Greek παρθένος (parthénos).

• IPA^(key): /paɾˈθe.nos/
• Hyphenation: παρ‧θέ‧νος

παρθένος • (parthénos) m (feminine παρθένα or παρθένος, neuter παρθένο)

1. virgin

   Synonyms: αμόλυντος (amólyntos), απάρθενος (apárthenos)

   η Παρθένος Μαρία ― i Parthénos María ― the Virgin Mary

2. pure, unadulterated

παρθένος • (parthénos) f (plural παρθένοι)

1. virgin
2. Virgo (someone born under that zodiacal sign)