ταώς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• τᾰῶς (taôs)
• τᾰών (taṓn)

Etymology

Of origin; possibly from an Oriental source, perhaps from Dravidian (compare Tamil தோகை (tōkai, “tail (of a peacock)”)) or a Turkic source (compare Turkish tavuk (“hen”)). Cognates include Latin pāvus, pāvō, and perhaps Hebrew טַוָּס (ṭawwā́s), Aramaic טַוסָא (ṭawsā), Arabic طَاوُوس (ṭāwūs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ta.ɔ̌ːs/ → /taˈos/ → /taˈos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ta.ɔ̌ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /taˈos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /taˈos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /taˈos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /taˈos/

Noun

τᾰώς • (taṓs) m (genitive τᾰώ); second declension

1. peacock
2. type of fish

Inflection

Attic second declension of ὁ τᾰώς; τοῦ τᾰώ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ τᾰώς ho taṓs	τὼ τᾰώ tṑ taṓ	οἱ τᾰῴ hoi taṓi
Genitive	τοῦ τᾰώ toû taṓ	τοῖν τᾰῴν toîn taṓin	τῶν τᾰών tôn taṓn
Dative	τῷ τᾰῴ tôi taṓi	τοῖν τᾰῴν toîn taṓin	τοῖς τᾰῴς toîs taṓis
Accusative	τὸν τᾰώ / τᾰών tòn taṓ(n)	τὼ τᾰώ tṑ taṓ	τοὺς τᾰώς toùs taṓs
Vocative	τᾰώς taṓs	τᾰώ taṓ	τᾰῴ taṓi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “ταώς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ταώς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ταώς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • peacock idem, page 601.
  • popinjay idem, page 626.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

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Greek

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ταώς (taṓs).

Noun

ταώς • (taós) m (uncountable) (archaic, obsolete)

1. (astronomy) the constellation Pavo or the peacock
2. peacock

Declension

  ταώς

case     \     number	singular
nominative	ταώς •
genitive	ταώ •
accusative	ταώ •
vocative	ταώ •

Synonyms

• (peacock): παγώνι n (pagóni)