μάραθον
See also: Μαραθών
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- μάραθρον (márathron)
Etymology
Probably a Pre-Greek loan of foreign origin. Compare Albanian maraj.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /má.ra.tʰon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈma.ra.tʰon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈma.ra.θon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈma.ra.θon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈma.ra.θon/
Noun
μᾰ́ρᾰθον • (márathon) n (genitive μᾰρᾰ́θου); second declension
- fennel
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ μᾰ́ρᾰθον; τοῦ μᾰρᾰ́θου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ μᾰ́ρᾰθον tò márathon | τὼ μᾰρᾰ́θω tṑ maráthō | τᾰ̀ μᾰ́ρᾰθᾰ tà máratha | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μᾰρᾰ́θου toû maráthou | τοῖν μᾰρᾰ́θοιν toîn maráthoin | τῶν μᾰρᾰ́θων tôn maráthōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μᾰρᾰ́θῳ tôi maráthōi | τοῖν μᾰρᾰ́θοιν toîn maráthoin | τοῖς μᾰρᾰ́θοις toîs maráthois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ μᾰ́ρᾰθον tò márathon | τὼ μᾰρᾰ́θω tṑ maráthō | τᾰ̀ μᾰ́ρᾰθᾰ tà máratha | ||||||||||
Vocative | μᾰ́ρᾰθον márathon | μᾰρᾰ́θω maráthō | μᾰ́ρᾰθᾰ máratha | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἱππομάραθον (hippomárathon)
- Μαραθών (Marathṓn) (unless folk etymology)
Descendants
- →? Proto-Albanian:
- Albanian: maraj
- → Latin: marathrum, marathum, maratum
- >? Romanian: mărar
- →? Old Church Slavonic: молотрь (molotrĭ)
Further reading
- “μάραθον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μάραθον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μάραθον 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- fennel idem, page 315.