Παρνασός
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
As proposed by Palmer, may be related to Luwian [script needed] (parnanza, “house”) (stem parna-) and productive possessive suffix [script needed] (-ašša-). A similar toponym [Anatolian Hieroglyphs needed] (pa+ra/i-na-sa), apparently a town in Anatolia, is attested in a hieroglyphic inscription on a Luwian monument found in Karkamıš (A24a).
However, Beekes argues that according to 6th century encyclopedist Stephanus of Byzantium the mountain had an older name starting from Λ, and judging by the variation σσ/σ it may be Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /par.naː.sós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /par.naˈsos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /par.naˈsos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /par.naˈsos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /par.naˈsos/
Proper noun edit
Παρνᾱσός • (Parnāsós) m (genitive Παρνᾱσοῦ); second declension
- Mount Parnassus
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ Παρνᾱσός ho Parnāsós | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Παρνᾱσοῦ toû Parnāsoû | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Παρνᾱσῷ tôi Parnāsôi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν Παρνᾱσόν tòn Parnāsón | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Παρνᾱσέ Parnāsé | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
- Παρνᾱσῐᾰ́ς (Parnāsiás), Παρνησῐᾰ́ς (Parnēsiás)
- Παρνᾱ́σῐος (Parnā́sios), Παρνήσσῐος (Parnḗssios)
- Παρνᾱσῐ́ς (Parnāsís), Παρνασσῐ́ς (Parnassís), Παρνησῐ́ς (Parnēsís)
Descendants edit
- Greek: Παρνασσός (Parnassós)
References edit
- “Παρνασός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Παρνασός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,020