μόθων
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
edit- μόθᾰξ (móthax)
Etymology
editAccording to Beekes, from μόθος (móthos, “battle din”). However, Lewy proposes a Semitic origin, comparing the word with Hebrew עתק (ataq, “to set free”) and suggesting that μόθαξ (móthax) was the original word.
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mó.tʰɔːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmo.tʰon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmo.θon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmo.θon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmo.θon/
Noun
editμόθων • (móthōn) m (genitive μόθωνος); third declension
- (at Sparta) children of helots, brought up as foster-brothers of the young Spartans
- (in Attica) presumptuous, impudent fellow
- kind of licentious dance
- kind of tune for the flute
Declension
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μόθων ho móthōn |
τὼ μόθωνε tṑ móthōne |
οἱ μόθωνες hoi móthōnes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μόθωνος toû móthōnos |
τοῖν μοθώνοιν toîn mothṓnoin |
τῶν μοθώνων tôn mothṓnōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μόθωνῐ tôi móthōni |
τοῖν μοθώνοιν toîn mothṓnoin |
τοῖς μόθωσῐ / μόθωσῐν toîs móthōsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μόθωνᾰ tòn móthōna |
τὼ μόθωνε tṑ móthōne |
τοὺς μόθωνᾰς toùs móthōnas | ||||||||||
Vocative | μόθων móthōn |
μόθωνε móthōne |
μόθωνες móthōnes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “μόθων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μόθων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μόθων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
- Lewy, Heinrich (1895) Die semitischen Fremdwörter im Griechischen (in German), Berlin: R. Gaertner’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 73
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- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
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- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension
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