Δαμασκός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Of Northwest Semitic origin. See Hebrew דַּמֶּשֶׂק (dammeśeq).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /da.mas.kós/ → /ða.masˈkos/ → /ða.masˈkos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /da.mas.kós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /da.masˈkos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ða.masˈkos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ða.masˈkos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ða.masˈkos/

Proper noun

Δαμασκός • (Damaskós) f (genitive Δαμασκοῦ); second declension

1. a city in modern Syria; an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 744 CE and Aram-Damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th centuries BCE

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ Δαμασκός; τῆς Δαμασκοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Δαμασκός hē Damaskós
Genitive	τῆς Δαμασκοῦ tês Damaskoû
Dative	τῇ Δαμασκῷ tēî Damaskōî
Accusative	τὴν Δαμασκόν tḕn Damaskón
Vocative	Δαμασκέ Damaské
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Δαμασκηνόν (Damaskēnón)
• Δαμασκηνός (Damaskēnós)

Descendants

• Armenian: Դամասկոս (Damaskos)
• English: Damascus
• French: Damas
• Greek: Δαμασκός (Damaskós)
• Latin: Damascus
• Polish: Damaszek

References

• 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
• Δαμασκός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• G1154 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, page 1,008

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Δαμασκός (Damaskós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ða.maˈskos/
• Hyphenation: Δα‧μα‧σκός

Proper noun

Δαμασκός • (Damaskós) f

1. Damascus (the capital city of Syria; an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 744 CE and Aram-Damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th centuries BCE)

Declension

Declension of Δαμασκός

	singular
nominative	Δαμασκός (Damaskós)
genitive	Δαμασκού (Damaskoú)
accusative	Δαμασκό (Damaskó)
vocative	Δαμασκέ (Damaské) Δαμασκό (Damaskó)

Derived terms

• Δαμασκηνός m (Damaskinós, “male Damascene”)
• Δαμασκηνή f (Damaskiní, “female Damascene”)
• δαμασκηνός (damaskinós) (adjective)

Further reading

• Δαμασκός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el