ποταμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. Most commonly explained as related to πῑ́πτω (pī́ptō, “to fall”) or πόντος (póntos, “sea”)/Proto-Indo-European *pónteh₁s (“path, bridge”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /po.ta.mós/ → /po.taˈmos/ → /po.taˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /po.ta.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /po.taˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /po.taˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /po.taˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /po.taˈmos/

Noun

ποτᾰμός • (potamós) m (genitive ποτᾰμοῦ); second declension

1. river, stream
2. canal

Declension

Second declension of ὁ ποτᾰμός; τοῦ ποτᾰμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ποτᾰμός ho potamós	τὼ ποτᾰμώ tṑ potamṓ	οἱ ποτᾰμοί hoi potamoí
Genitive	τοῦ ποτᾰμοῦ toû potamoû	τοῖν ποτᾰμοῖν toîn potamoîn	τῶν ποτᾰμῶν tôn potamôn
Dative	τῷ ποτᾰμῷ tôi potamôi	τοῖν ποτᾰμοῖν toîn potamoîn	τοῖς ποτᾰμοῖς toîs potamoîs
Accusative	τὸν ποτᾰμόν tòn potamón	τὼ ποτᾰμώ tṑ potamṓ	τοὺς ποτᾰμούς toùs potamoús
Vocative	ποτᾰμέ potamé	ποτᾰμώ potamṓ	ποτᾰμοί potamoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Second declension of ποτᾰμός; ποτᾰμοῦ (Epic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ποτᾰμός potamós	ποτᾰμώ potamṓ	ποτᾰμοί potamoí
Genitive	ποτᾰμοῦ / ποτᾰμοῖο / ποτᾰμόο potamoû / potamoîo / potamóo	ποτᾰμοῖῐν potamoîin	ποτᾰμῶν potamôn
Dative	ποτᾰμῷ potamôi	ποτᾰμοῖῐν potamoîin	ποτᾰμοῖσῐ / ποτᾰμοῖσῐν / ποτᾰμοῖς potamoîsi(n) / potamoîs
Accusative	ποτᾰμόν potamón	ποτᾰμώ potamṓ	ποτᾰμούς potamoús
Vocative	ποτᾰμέ potamé	ποτᾰμώ potamṓ	ποτᾰμοί potamoí
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Derived terms

• ῐ̔πποπότᾰμος (hippopótamos)
• μεσοποτάμιος (mesopotámios)

References

• “ποταμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ποταμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ποταμός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ποταμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ποταμός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ποταμός”, in Valerius Harpocration (edition, 1853) Wilhelm Dindorf, editor, Harpocrationis Lexicon in decem oratores Atticos, Oxford: Wilhelm Dindorf
• “ποταμός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G4215 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• ποταμός in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • river idem, page 718.
  • stream idem, page 824.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1225–1226
• Watkins, Calvert, ed., The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, 2nd ed., Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ποταμός (potamós).

Noun

ποταμός • (potamós) m (plural ποταμοί)

1. Alternative form of ποτάμι (potámi) (river)

Declension

Declension of ποταμός

	singular	plural
nominative	ποταμός •	ποταμοί •
genitive	ποταμού •	ποταμών •
accusative	ποταμό •	ποταμούς •
vocative	ποταμέ •	ποταμοί •

Further reading

• ποταμός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el