νότος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Southern Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nó.tos/ → /ˈno.tos/ → /ˈno.tos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nó.tos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈno.tos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈno.tos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈno.tos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈno.tos/

Noun

νότος • (nótos) m (genitive νότου); second declension

1. The south wind
2. The south

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ νότος; τοῦ νότου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ νότος ho nótos	τὼ νότω tṑ nótō	οἱ νότοι hoi nótoi
Genitive	τοῦ νότου toû nótou	τοῖν νότοιν toîn nótoin	τῶν νότων tôn nótōn
Dative	τῷ νότῳ tôi nótōi	τοῖν νότοιν toîn nótoin	τοῖς νότοις toîs nótois
Accusative	τὸν νότον tòn nóton	τὼ νότω tṑ nótō	τοὺς νότους toùs nótous
Vocative	νότε nóte	νότω nótō	νότοι nótoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• εὐρόνοτος (eurónotos)
• λιβόνοτος (libónotos)
• νότινος (nótinos)
• Νότος (Nótos)

 

Descendants

• Greek: νότος (nótos)
• Italiot Greek: νότος
• Pontic Greek: νότος (nótos), νό̤τος (nö́tos)
• → Ottoman Turkish: لودوس (lodos), لدوس (lodos), لودز (lodoz)
  • Turkish: lodos
  • → Armenian: լօտօս (lōtōs) — Constantinople
  • → Bulgarian: ло́дос (lódos), лодо́с (lodós), лодо́са (lodósa), лодо́з (lodóz), лодус (lodus), ладо́з (ladóz)
  • → Ladino: lodós
  • → Laz: ლოდოზი (lodozi), ლოდოსი (lodosi)

Further reading

• “νότος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “νότος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• νότος 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
• G3558 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • south idem, page 797.
  • south wind idem, page 797.
  • wind idem, page 980.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek νότος (nótos).

Noun

νότος • (nótos) m (uncountable)

1. (navigation) south
2. (meteorology) south wind

Declension

  νότος

case     \     number	singular
nominative	νότος •
genitive	νότου •
accusative	νότο •
vocative	νότε •

Coordinate terms

• Appendix:Greek compass points

Related terms

• νοτίζω (notízo, “to moisten, to humidify”)

Further reading

• νότος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el