Παρνασός

Ancient Greek

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Mount Parnassus

Alternative forms

Παρνασσός (Parnassós)
Παρνησός (Parnēsós) — Ionic
Λαρνασσός (Larnassós)

Etymology

As proposed by Palmer, may be related to Luwian [script needed] (parnanza, “house”) (stem parna-) and productive possessive suffix [script needed] (-ašša-). A similar toponym [Anatolian Hieroglyphs needed] (pa+ra/i-na-sa), apparently a town in Anatolia, is attested in a hieroglyphic inscription on a Luwian monument found in Karkamıš (A24a).

However, Beekes argues that according to 6th century encyclopedist Stephanus of Byzantium the mountain had an older name starting from Λ, and judging by the variation σσ/σ it may be Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /par.naː.sós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /par.naˈsos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /par.naˈsos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /par.naˈsos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /par.naˈsos/

Proper noun

Παρνᾱσός • (Parnāsós) m (genitive Παρνᾱσοῦ); second declension

Mount Parnassus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Παρνᾱσός; τοῦ Παρνᾱσοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Παρνᾱσός ho Parnāsós
Genitive	τοῦ Παρνᾱσοῦ toû Parnāsoû
Dative	τῷ Παρνᾱσῷ tôi Parnāsôi
Accusative	τὸν Παρνᾱσόν tòn Parnāsón
Vocative	Παρνᾱσέ Parnāsé
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Παρνᾱσῐᾰ́ς (Parnāsiás), Παρνησῐᾰ́ς (Parnēsiás)
Παρνᾱ́σῐος (Parnā́sios), Παρνήσσῐος (Parnḗssios)
Παρνᾱσῐ́ς (Parnāsís), Παρνασσῐ́ς (Parnassís), Παρνησῐ́ς (Parnēsís)

Descendants

Greek: Παρνασσός (Parnassós)

References

“Παρνασός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Παρνασός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,020