πάταγος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Possibly of onomatopoeic origin. The suffix in -γ- is found in semantically close forms, such as λαλαγή (lalagḗ), σμαραγέω (smaragéō) and οἰμωγή (oimōgḗ). Furnée compares σπαταγγίζειν (spatangízein); the word could also be of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pá.ta.ɡos/ → /ˈpa.ta.ɣos/ → /ˈpa.ta.ɣos/

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

Noun

πάτᾰγος • (pátagos) m (genitive πατᾰ́γου); second declension

1. clatter, crash (of trees falling)
2. chattering of the teeth
3. rattle or crash of thunder
4. plash of a body falling into water

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πάτᾰγος; τοῦ πατᾰ́γου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πάτᾰγος ho pátagos	τὼ πατᾰ́γω tṑ patágō	οἱ πάτᾰγοι hoi pátagoi
Genitive	τοῦ πατᾰ́γου toû patágou	τοῖν πατᾰ́γοιν toîn patágoin	τῶν πατᾰ́γων tôn patágōn
Dative	τῷ πατᾰ́γῳ tôi patágōi	τοῖν πατᾰ́γοιν toîn patágoin	τοῖς πατᾰ́γοις toîs patágois
Accusative	τὸν πάτᾰγον tòn pátagon	τὼ πατᾰ́γω tṑ patágō	τοὺς πατᾰ́γους toùs patágous
Vocative	πάτᾰγε pátage	πατᾰ́γω patágō	πάτᾰγοι pátagoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• παταγέω (patagéō)
• παταγή (patagḗ)
• πατάγημα (patágēma)
• παταγοδρόμος (patagodrómos)

Descendants

• Latin: patagus

Further reading

• “πάταγος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πάταγος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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