Σεβαστός

See also: σεβαστός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Use of σεβᾰστός (sebastós, “venerable, reverend, august”) as proper noun; see there for more. Calque of Latin Augustus.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /se.bas.tós/ → /se.βasˈtos/ → /se.vasˈtos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /se.bas.tós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /se.basˈtos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /se.βasˈtos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /se.vasˈtos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /se.vasˈtos/

Proper noun

Σεβᾰστός • (Sebastós) m (genitive Σεβᾰστοῦ); second declension

1. Augustus; Sebastus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Σεβᾰστός; τοῦ Σεβᾰστοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Σεβᾰστός ho Sebastós
Genitive	τοῦ Σεβᾰστοῦ toû Sebastoû
Dative	τῷ Σεβᾰστῷ tôi Sebastôi
Accusative	τὸν Σεβᾰστόν tòn Sebastón
Vocative	Σεβᾰστέ Sebasté
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Σεβᾰστή (Sebastḗ)
• Σεβᾰ́στειᾰ (Sebásteia)
• Σεβᾰστῐᾱνός (Sebastiānós)

Descendants

• Latin: Sebastus, Sebastiānus
  • English: Sebastian

References

• G4575 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.
  • augustus idem, page 53.