Μαραθών
See also: μάραθων and μαράθων
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Strabo, from μάραθον (márathon, “fennel”), referring to the prevalence of the plant in the area.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ma.ra.tʰɔ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ma.raˈtʰon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ma.raˈθon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ma.raˈθon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ma.raˈθon/
Proper noun
Μᾰρᾰθών • (Marathṓn) m (genitive Μᾰρᾰθῶνος); third declension
- Marathon, Attica, Greece
- 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 3.4.9
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 13.110
Usage notes
The word is used with a feminine article in Pindar.
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ Μᾰρᾰθών; τοῦ Μᾰρᾰθῶνος (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ Μᾰρᾰθών ho Marathṓn | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Μᾰρᾰθῶνος toû Marathônos | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Μᾰρᾰθῶνῐ tôi Marathôni | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Μᾰρᾰθῶνᾰ tòn Marathôna | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Μᾰρᾰθών Marathṓn | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Μαραθῶνάδε (Marathônáde)
- Μαραθῶνι (Marathôni)
- Μαραθώνιος (Marathṓnios)
- Μαραθωνόθεν (Marathōnóthen)
Descendants
- → French: marathon (learned)
- → Czech: maraton, maratón, marathon
- → Danish: maraton, marathon
- → Dutch: marathon
- → Papiamentu: máratòn
- → English: marathon
- → Bengali: ম্যারাথন (mẏarathônô)
- → Chinese: 馬拉松／马拉松
- → Zhuang: majlahsungh
- Mandarin: 馬拉松／马拉松 (mǎlāsōng), 马拉松
- → Gujarati: મેરેથોન (merethon)
- → Hindi: मैराथन (mairāthan)
- → Japanese: マラソン (marason)
- → Hakka: 馬拉松 (mà-la-sóng)
- → Korean: 마라톤 (maraton)
- → Swahili: marathoni
- → Finnish: maraton
- → German: Marathon
- → Greek: μαραθώνιος (marathónios) (calque)
- → Hebrew: מָרָתוֹן (maraton)
- → Hungarian: maraton
- → Latvian: maratons
- → Lithuanian: maratonas
- → Norwegian Bokmål: maraton
- → Polish: maraton
- → Romanian: maraton
- → Serbo-Croatian: mȁratōn
- → Swedish: maraton
- → Turkish: maraton
- → Vietnamese: ma-ra-tông
- Greek: Μαραθών (Marathón), Μαραθώνας (Marathónas)
- Latin: Marathon
References
- “Μαραθών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Μαραθών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Μαραθών”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- “Μαραθών”, 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,016