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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Ἥρᾱ (Hḗrā, “Hera”) + δοτός (dotós, “granted”, from δίδωμι (dídōmi)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɛː.ró.do.tos/ → /iˈro.ðo.tos/ → /iˈro.ðo.tos/
Proper noun
Ἡρόδοτος • (Hēródotos) m (genitive Ἡροδότου); second declension
- a male given name, equivalent to English Herodotus
- in particular, the 5th century BCE historian Herodotus of Halicarnassus
Inflection
Descendants
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References
- “Ἡρόδοτος”, 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 1,013