Olympus
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin Olympus, from Ancient Greek Ὄλυμπος (Ólumpos), likely of Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Olympus
- The highest mountain in Greece; in Ancient Greek mythology the home of the gods.
- 1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 731:
- Sleeping-car passengers, however, will know little of their entry into Greece until, at 6 a.m. on the third morning after leaving Paris, the short train runs over the Vardar plain, with dawn glimpses of Mount Athos to the east and of cloud-capped Olympus across the gulf to the south, past the rebuilt yard and into the new passenger station at Salonica.
Translations edit
mountain
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See also edit
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὄλυμπος (Ólumpos, “Olympus”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /oˈlym.pus/, [ɔˈlʲʏmpʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /oˈlim.pus/, [oˈlimpus]
Proper noun edit
Olympus m sg (genitive Olympī); second declension
- Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece, thought of as the home of the gods in Ancient Greek mythology.
- (by transference from the previous sense) heaven
- One of various other mountains of the same name
Proper noun edit
Olympus f sg (genitive Olympī); second declension
- A city name taken from the name of a neighboring mountain
Declension edit
Second-declension noun, singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Olympus |
| Genitive | Olympī |
| Dative | Olympō |
| Accusative | Olympum |
| Ablative | Olympō |
| Vocative | Olympe |
Descendants edit
References edit
- “Olympus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Olympus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.