Ἰανός

See also: Ιανός and -ιανός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Iānus.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /i.aː.nós/ → /i.aˈnos/ → /i.aˈnos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /i.aː.nós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /i.aˈnos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.aˈnos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.aˈnos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.aˈnos/

Proper noun

Ἰᾱνός • (Iānós) m (genitive Ἰᾱνοῦ); second declension

1. Janus
2. (philosophy and theology) In the Platonist theology of Plethon, an aspect of Zeus, as attested in one of the twenty-seven hymns.

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Ἰᾱνός; τοῦ Ἰᾱνοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ἰᾱνός ho Iānós
Genitive	τοῦ Ἰᾱνοῦ toû Iānoû
Dative	τῷ Ἰᾱνῷ tôi Iānôi
Accusative	τὸν Ἰᾱνόν tòn Iānón
Vocative	Ἰᾱνέ Iāné
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Ιανός (Ianós)

References

• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,014

Further reading

• “Ἰανός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011