Ποσειδῶν

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Alternative forms

• Ποσειδάν (Doric)
• Ποσειδάων (Homeric)
• Ποσειδέων (Ionic)
• Ποτειδάν (Doric)
• Ποτείδαν (Aeolic)
• Ποτειδᾶς (Doric)
• Ποτειδάων (Doric)

Etymology

See Po-se-da-o in Linear-B tablets; possibly from a vocative *Πότ(ε)ι Δᾶς from πόσις (“master, husband”) and *Δα (Γῆ -earth, see Δήμητρα)

Pronunciation

• (5th BC Attic): IPA: /pose͜edɔ́͜ɔn/

• (1st BC Egyptian): IPA: /posiːdóːn/

• (4th AD Koine): IPA: /posiðón/

• (10th AD Byzantine): IPA: /posiðón/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan): IPA: /posiðón/

Proper noun

Ποσειδῶν (genitive Ποσειδῶνος) m, third declension; (Poseidōn)

1. Poseidon

Usage notes

In archaic and verse, the irregular singular genitive case is Ποσειδῶ.

Inflection

    Third declension of Ποσειδῶν, Ποσειδῶ(νος)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	Ποσειδῶν
Genitive	Ποσειδῶ(νος)
Dative	Ποσειδῶνῐ
Accusative	Ποσειδῶνᾰ
Vocative	Ποσειδῶν

Derived terms

• Ποσειδώνιον

Descendants

• Arabic: بوسيدون
• Basque: Poseidon
• Breton: Poseidon
• Bulgarian: Посейдон (Posejdon)
• Catalan: Posidó
• Czech: Poseidón
• Danish: Poseidon
• Dutch: Poseidon
• English: Poseidon
• Estonian: Poseidon
• Finnish: Poseidon
• French: Poséidon
• Galician: Poseidón
• Georgian: პოსეიდონი (P'oseidoni)
• German: Poseidon
• Greek: Ποσειδών (UN: Poseidon, BGN: Posidhon), Ποσειδώνας (UN: Poseidonas, BGN: Posidhonas)
• Hebrew: פוסידון
• Hindi: वरुण
• Hungarian: Poszeidón
• Indonesian: Poseidon
• Italian: Poseidone
• Japanese: ポセイドーン (Poseidōn)
• Korean: 포세이돈 (RR: Pose'idon, MCR: P'ose'idon, Yale: Phoseyiton)
• Latin: Posidon
• Latvian: Poseidons
• Lithuanian: Poseidonas
• Low German: Poseidon
• Luxembourgish: Poseidon
• Norwegian: Poseidon
• Polish: Posejdon
• Portuguese: Posídon
• Romanian: Poseidon
• Russian: Посейдон (Posejdon)
• Serbo-Croatian: Посејдон, Posejdon
• Slovak: Poseidón
• Slovene: Pozejdon
• Spanish: Poseidón
• Thai: โพไซดอน
• Turkish: Poseidon, Posedon
• Ukrainian: Посейдон (Posejdon)

References

• LSJ
• Woodhouse’s English-Greek Dictionary page 1023