μόθων
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- μόθᾰξ (móthax)
Etymology
According to Beekes, from μόθος (móthos, “battle din”). However, Lewy proposes a Semitic origin, comparing the word with Hebrew עתק (ataq, “to set free”) and suggesting that μόθαξ (móthax) was the original word.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mó.tʰɔːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmo.tʰon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmo.θon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmo.θon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmo.θon/
Noun
μόθων • (móthōn) m (genitive μόθωνος); third declension
- (at Sparta) children of helots, brought up as foster-brothers of the young Spartans
- (in Attica) presumptuous, impudent fellow
- kind of licentious dance
- kind of tune for the flute
Declension
Third declension of ὁ μόθων; τοῦ μόθωνος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μόθων ho móthōn | τὼ μόθωνε tṑ móthōne | οἱ μόθωνες hoi móthōnes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μόθωνος toû móthōnos | τοῖν μοθώνοιν toîn mothṓnoin | τῶν μοθώνων tôn mothṓnōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μόθωνῐ tôi móthōni | μοθώνοιν mothṓnoin | τοῖς μόθωσῐ / μόθωσῐν toîs móthōsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μόθωνᾰ tòn móthōna | μόθωνε móthōne | τοὺς μόθωνᾰς toùs móthōnas | ||||||||||
Vocative | μόθων móthōn | μόθωνε móthōne | μόθωνες móthōnes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- μοθωνῐ́ᾱ (mothōníā)
- μοθωνῐκός (mothōnikós)
Further reading
- μόθων in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μόθων in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μόθων 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
- Lewy, Heinrich (1895) Die semitischen Fremdwörter im Griechischen (in German), Berlin: R. Gaertner’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 73