Ἄθως

See also: Άθως

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /á.tʰɔːs/ → /ˈa.θos/ → /ˈa.θos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /á.tʰɔːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈa.tʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.θos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.θos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈa.θos/

Proper noun

Ἄθως • (Áthōs) m (genitive Ἄθω); Attic declension

1. Athos, a character in Greek mythology
2. Athos (a peninsula in Greece, containing Mount Athos)
3. Mount Athos (a mountain and peninsula in northeastern Greece) which is an important centre of Greek Orthodox monasticism.

Inflection

Attic second declension of ὁ Ἄθως; τοῦ Ἄθω (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ἄθως ho Áthōs
Genitive	τοῦ Ἄθω toû Áthō
Dative	τῷ Ἄθῳ tôi Áthōi
Accusative	τὸν Ἄθω / Ἄθων tòn Áthō(n)
Vocative	Ἄθως Áthōs
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ἄθωος (Áthōos)

Descendants

• Greek: Άθως m (Áthos), Άθωνας m (Áthonas)
• → Latin: Athōs

Further reading

• “Ἄθως”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ἄθως”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Ἄθως”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Ἄθως in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,003