μόθος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
No cognates outside Greek. Has been compared with Proto-Slavic *metàti (“to throw”) and with Sanskrit मथति (mathati, “to stir”) but this seems unprobable. Perhaps from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mó.tʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmo.tʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmo.θos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmo.θos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmo.θos/
Noun
μόθος • (móthos) m (genitive μόθου); second declension
- battle din
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ μόθος; τοῦ μόθου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μόθος ho móthos | τὼ μόθω tṑ móthō | οἱ μόθοι hoi móthoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μόθου toû móthou | τοῖν μόθοιν toîn móthoin | τῶν μόθων tôn móthōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μόθῳ tôi móthōi | τοῖν μόθοιν toîn móthoin | τοῖς μόθοις toîs móthois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μόθον tòn móthon | τὼ μόθω tṑ móthō | τοὺς μόθους toùs móthous | ||||||||||
Vocative | μόθε móthe | μόθω móthō | μόθοι móthoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- μόθαξ (móthax)
- μόθουρα (móthoura)
- μόθων (móthōn)
Further reading
- μόθος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μόθος 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