διθύραμβος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Like ἴαμβος (íambos), θρίαμβος (thríambos) and ἴθυμβος (íthumbos), this word is probably a loanword from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /diː.tʰý.ram.bos/ → /ðiˈθy.ram.bos/ → /ðiˈθi.ram.bos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /diː.tʰý.ram.bos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /diˈtʰy.ram.bos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ðiˈθy.ram.bos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðiˈθy.ram.bos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðiˈθi.ram.bos/

Noun

δῑθῠ́ρᾰμβος • (dīthúrambos) m (genitive δῑθῠρᾰ́μβου); second declension

1. dithyramb, a hymn in honor of Dionysus
2. (figuratively) bombastic language
3. name for the god Dionysus himself

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ δῑθῠ́ρᾰμβος; τοῦ δῑθῠρᾰ́μβου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ δῑθῠ́ρᾰμβος ho dīthúrambos	τὼ δῑθῠρᾰ́μβω tṑ dīthurámbō	οἱ δῑθῠ́ρᾰμβοι hoi dīthúramboi
Genitive	τοῦ δῑθῠρᾰ́μβου toû dīthurámbou	τοῖν δῑθῠρᾰ́μβοιν toîn dīthurámboin	τῶν δῑθῠρᾰ́μβων tôn dīthurámbōn
Dative	τῷ δῑθῠρᾰ́μβῳ tôi dīthurámbōi	τοῖν δῑθῠρᾰ́μβοιν toîn dīthurámboin	τοῖς δῑθῠρᾰ́μβοις toîs dīthurámbois
Accusative	τὸν δῑθῠ́ρᾰμβον tòn dīthúrambon	τὼ δῑθῠρᾰ́μβω tṑ dīthurámbō	τοὺς δῑθῠρᾰ́μβους toùs dīthurámbous
Vocative	δῑθῠ́ρᾰμβε dīthúrambe	δῑθῠρᾰ́μβω dīthurámbō	δῑθῠ́ρᾰμβοι dīthúramboi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• διθυραμβέω (dithurambéō)
• διθυραμβικός (dithurambikós)
• διθυράμβιος (dithurámbios)
• Διθυραμβογενής (Dithurambogenḗs)
• διθυραμβογράφος (dithurambográphos)
• διθυραμβοδιδάσκαλος (dithurambodidáskalos)
• διθυραμβοποιητική (dithurambopoiētikḗ)
• διθυραμβοποιός (dithurambopoiós)
• διθυραμβοχώνα (dithurambokhṓna)
• διθυραμβώδης (dithurambṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: dīthyrambus
  • → English: dithyramb
  • → Italian: ditirambo
  • → Spanish: ditirambo
  • → Catalan: ditirambe

Further reading

• “διθύραμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “διθύραμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• διθύραμβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• διθύραμβος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN