ἄτομος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀ- (a-, “not”) +‎ τομ-, o-grade of the root of τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”) +‎ -ός (-ós).

Adjective

ἄτομος • (átomos) m or f (neuter ἄτομον); second declension

1. uncut
2. indivisible, not capable of being cut/divided into smaller pieces
3. undivided, individual

Declension

Second declension of ἄτομος; ἄτομον (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ἄτομος átomos		ἄτομον átomon		ἀτόμω atómō		ἀτόμω atómō		ἄτομοι átomoi		ἄτομᾰ átomă
Genitive		ἀτόμου atómou		ἀτόμου atómou		ἀτόμοιν atómoin		ἀτόμοιν atómoin		ἀτόμων atómōn		ἀτόμων atómōn
Dative		ἀτόμῳ atómōi		ἀτόμῳ atómōi		ἀτόμοιν atómoin		ἀτόμοιν atómoin		ἀτόμοις atómois		ἀτόμοις atómois
Accusative		ἄτομον átomon		ἄτομον átomon		ἀτόμω atómō		ἀτόμω atómō		ἀτόμους atómous		ἄτομᾰ átomă
Vocative		ἄτομε átome		ἄτομον átomon		ἀτόμω atómō		ἀτόμω atómō		ἄτομοι átomoi		ἄτομᾰ átomă
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		ἀτόμως atómōs				ἀτομώτερος atomṓteros				ἀτομώτᾰτος atomṓtătos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἄτομον (átomon)

Descendants

• Greek: άτομο (átomo) (from neuter ἄτομον (átomon))
• → Latin: atomus (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “ἄτομος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἄτομος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἄτομος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄτομος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• G823 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.
  • unmown idem, page 926.