Δημόκριτος
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
- Δᾱμόκρῐτος (Dāmókritos)
Etymology edit
From δῆμος (dêmos, “people”) + κρῐτός (kritós, “chosen”).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /dɛː.mó.kri.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /de̝ˈmo.kri.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ðiˈmo.kri.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ðiˈmo.kri.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ðiˈmo.kri.tos/
Proper noun edit
Δημόκρῐτος • (Dēmókritos) m (genitive Δημοκρῐ́του); second declension
- a male given name, equivalent to English Democritus
- (in particular) the pre-Socratic philosopher Democritus of Abdera
Declension edit
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ Δημόκρῐτος ho Dēmókritos | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Δημοκρῐ́του toû Dēmokrítou | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Δημοκρῐ́τῳ tôi Dēmokrítōi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν Δημόκρῐτον tòn Dēmókriton | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Δημόκρῐτε Dēmókrite | ||||||||||||
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Further reading edit
- Δημόκριτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Δημόκριτος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Δημόκριτος - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.