Ἄβυδος

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /á.byː.dos/ → /ˈa.βy.ðos/ → /ˈa.vi.ðos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /á.byː.dos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈa.by.dos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.βy.ðos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.vy.ðos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈa.vi.ðos/

Proper noun

Ἄβῡδος • (Ábūdos) f (genitive Ἄβῡδος); second declension

1. Abydos, an ancient city in Mysia
2. Abydos, an ancient city in Upper Egypt

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ Ἄβῡδος; τῆς Ἀβῡ́δου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ἄβῡδος hē Ábūdos
Genitive	τῆς Ἀβῡ́δου tês Abū́dou
Dative	τῇ Ἀβῡ́δῳ têi Abū́dōi
Accusative	τὴν Ἄβῡδον tḕn Ábūdon
Vocative	Ἄβῡδε Ábūde
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ἀβυδηνός (Abudēnós)

Descendants

• Greek: Άβυδος (Ávydos)
• → Latin: Abȳdus, Abidos, Aboedos

Further reading

• “Ἄβυδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ἄβυδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Ἄβυδος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Ἄβυδος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 999