ποταμός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
2=peth₂Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.
Uncertain. Most commonly explained as related to πῑ́πτω (pī́ptō, “to fall”). Could also relate to πετάννῡμι (petánnūmi, “to expand”), which would make it identical to Proto-Germanic *faþmaz (“embrace”) (English fathom).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /po.ta.mós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /po.taˈmos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /po.taˈmos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /po.taˈmos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /po.taˈmos/
Noun
ποτᾰμός • (potamós) m (genitive ποτᾰμοῦ); second declension
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nominative | ὁ ποτᾰμός ho potamós |
τὼ ποτᾰμώ tṑ potamṓ |
οἱ ποτᾰμοί hoi potamoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ποτᾰμοῦ toû potamoû |
τοῖν ποτᾰμοῖν toîn potamoîn |
τῶν ποτᾰμῶν tôn potamôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ποτᾰμῷ tôi potamôi |
τοῖν ποτᾰμοῖν toîn potamoîn |
τοῖς ποτᾰμοῖς toîs potamoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ποτᾰμόν tòn potamón |
τὼ ποτᾰμώ tṑ potamṓ |
τοὺς ποτᾰμούς toùs potamoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | ποτᾰμέ potamé |
ποτᾰμώ potamṓ |
ποτᾰμοί potamoí | ||||||||||
Notes: |
|
Derived terms
- μεσοποτάμιος (mesopotámios)
References
- “ποταμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ποταμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ποταμός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ποταμός 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
- ποταμός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ποταμός”, in Valerius Harpocration (edition, 1853) Wilhelm Dindorf, editor, Harpocrationis Lexicon in decem oratores Atticos, Oxford: Wilhelm Dindorf
- “ποταμός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G4215 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- ποταμός in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1225–1226
- Watkins, Calvert, ed., The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, 2nd ed., Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000
Greek
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ποταμός (potamós)
Noun
ποταμός • (potamós) m (plural ποταμοί)
- Alternative form of ποτάμι (potámi) (river)
Declension
Categories:
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension
- grc:Landforms
- Greek terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Greek lemmas
- Greek nouns
- Greek masculine nouns
- Greek nouns declining like 'αδελφός'
- el:Landforms