Ὄλυμπος

See also: Όλυμπος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Οὔλυμπος (Oúlumpos)

Etymology

According to Beekes, "without a doubt". Suspecting originally an appellative word for "mountain", he tentatively identified suffix -ump-.

Probably cognate with Mycenaean Greek [script needed] (u-ru-pi-ja-jo, “description of men, possibly ethnical”), which may indicate original /u/ in the anlaut.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ó.lym.pos/ → /ˈo.lym.pos/ → /ˈo.lim.bos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ó.lym.pos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.lym.pos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.lym.pos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.lym.pos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.lim.bos/

Proper noun

Ὄλῠμπος • (Ólumpos) m (genitive Ὀλῠ́μπου); second declension

1. Olympus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Ὄλῠμπος; τοῦ Ὀλῠ́μπου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ὄλῠμπος ho Ólumpos
Genitive	τοῦ Ὀλῠ́μπου toû Olúmpou
Dative	τῷ Ὀλῠ́μπῳ tôi Olúmpōi
Accusative	τὸν Ὄλῠμπον tòn Ólumpon
Vocative	Ὄλῠμπε Ólumpe
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ὀλυμπία (Olumpía)
• Ὀλύμπια (Olúmpia)
• Ὀλυμπίαζε (Olumpíaze)
• Ὀλυμπιακός (Olumpiakós)
• Ὀλυμπιάς (Olumpiás)
• Ὀλυμπίασι (Olumpíasi)
• Ὀλυμπιεῖον (Olumpieîon)
• Ὀλυμπικός (Olumpikós)
• Ὀλυμπιόδωρος (Olumpiódōros)
• Ὀλυμπιονίκης (Olumpioníkēs)
• Ὀλύμπιος (Olúmpios)

 

Descendants

Descendants

• Albanian: Olymp
• Asturian: Olimpu
• Basque: Olinpo
• Breton: Olympos
• Bulgarian: Олимп (Olimp)
• Catalan: Olimp
• Czech: Olymp
• Danish: Olympen
• Dutch: Olympus
• English: Olympus
• Estonian: Olümpos
• Finnish: Olympos
• French: Olympe
• Georgian: ოლიმპო (olimṗo), ულუმბო (ulumbo)
• German: Olymp
• Greek: Όλυμπος (Ólympos)
• Hebrew: אולימפוס (Olimpos)
• Hungarian: Olümposz
• Italian: Olimpo
• Japanese: オリンポス (Orinposu)
• Korean: 올림포스 (Ollimposeu)
• Latin: Olympus
• Lithuanian: Olimpas
• Luxembourgish: Olymp
• Norwegian: Olympos
• Polish: Olimp
• Portuguese: Olimpo
• Romanian: Olimp
• Russian: Олимп (Olimp)
• Serbo-Croatian: Олимп, Olimp
• Slovak: Olymp
• Slovene: Olimp
• Spanish: Olimpo
• Swedish: Olympen
• Turkish: Olimpos
• Ukrainian: Олімп (Olimp)

Further reading

• “Ὄλυμπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ὄλυμπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Ὄλυμπος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• “Ὄλυμπος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019