τίτανος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- τέτανος (tétanos)
Etymology
Like most expressions for "chalk", the word must be a loan. A different hypothesis is offered by Reichelt, who connects Sanskrit श्वित्न (śvitna, “whitish”) and κίττανος (kíttanos, “dusty chalk”), as well as the toponyms Τιτάνη (Titánē) and Πιτάνη (Pitánē). However, given the variation ε/ι, the word is probably Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tí.ta.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈti.ta.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈti.ta.nos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈti.ta.nos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈti.ta.nos/
Noun
τῐ́τᾰνος • (títanos) f (genitive τῐτᾰ́νου); second declension
- kind of white earth, probably gypsum
- chalk, lime
Inflection
Second declension of ἡ τῐ́τᾰνος; τῆς τῐτᾰ́νου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ τῐ́τᾰνος hē títanos | τὼ τῐτᾰ́νω tṑ titánō | αἱ τῐ́τᾰνοι hai títanoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς τῐτᾰ́νου tês titánou | τοῖν τῐτᾰ́νοιν toîn titánoin | τῶν τῐτᾰ́νων tôn titánōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ τῐτᾰ́νῳ têi titánōi | τῐτᾰ́νοιν titánoin | ταῖς τῐτᾰ́νοις taîs titánois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν τῐ́τᾰνον tḕn títanon | τῐτᾰ́νω titánō | τᾱ̀ς τῐτᾰ́νους tā̀s titánous | ||||||||||
Vocative | τῐ́τᾰνε títane | τῐτᾰ́νω titánō | τῐ́τᾰνοι títanoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- τίτανις (títanis)
- τιτανωτός (titanōtós)
Further reading
- τίτανος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τίτανος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τίτανος 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