Μαραθών
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editAccording to Strabo, from μάραθον (márathon, “fennel”), referring to the prevalence of the plant in the area.
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ma.ra.tʰɔ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ma.raˈtʰon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ma.raˈθon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ma.raˈθon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ma.raˈθon/
Proper noun
editΜᾰρᾰθών • (Marathṓn) m (genitive Μᾰρᾰθῶνος); third declension
- Marathon, Attica, Greece
Usage notes
editThe word is used with a feminine article in Pindar.
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ Μᾰρᾰθών ho Marathṓn | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Μᾰρᾰθῶνος toû Marathônos | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Μᾰρᾰθῶνῐ tôi Marathôni | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν Μᾰρᾰθῶνᾰ tòn Marathôna | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Μᾰρᾰθών Marathṓn | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
edit- Μαραθῶνάδε (Marathônáde)
- Μαραθῶνι (Marathôni)
- Μαραθώνιος (Marathṓnios)
- Μαραθωνόθεν (Marathōnóthen)
Descendants
edit- → French: marathon (learned)
- → Arabic: مَارَاثُون (mārāṯūn)
- → Czech: maraton, maratón, marathon
- → Danish: maraton, marathon (nonstandard)
- → Dutch: marathon
- → Papiamentu: máratòn
- → English: marathon
- → Finnish: maraton
- → German: Marathon
- → Greek: μαραθώνιος (marathónios) (calque)
- → Hebrew: מָרָתוֹן (maraton)
- → Hungarian: maraton
- → Latvian: maratons
- → Lithuanian: maratonas
- → Norwegian Bokmål: maraton
- → Polish: maraton
- → Romanian: maraton
- → Serbo-Croatian: mȁratōn
- → Swedish: maraton
- → Turkish: maraton
- → Vietnamese: ma-ra-tông
- Greek: Μαραθών (Marathón), Μαραθώνας (Marathónas)
- Latin: Marathon
References
edit- “Μαραθών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Μαραθών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Μαραθών”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- “Μαραθών”, 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[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,016
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- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek proper nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension proper nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns in the third declension
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
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