ψόθος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Closest to ψόλος (psólos, “soot”). Furnée connects ψοῖθος (psoîthos, “ashes”) and assumes also *ψῶδος (*psôdos, “dirt”), on the basis of ψωδαρέον (psōdaréon, “dry, parched; squalid, wretched”), suggesting a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /psó.tʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpso.tʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpso.θos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpso.θos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpso.θos/
Noun
ψόθος • (psóthos) m (genitive ψόθου); second declension
- uncleanness, foulness
- Synonyms: ἀκαθαρσία (akatharsía), ῥύπος (rhúpos)
Declension
Second declension of ὁ ψόθος; τοῦ ψόθου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ψόθος ho psóthos | τὼ ψόθω tṑ psóthō | οἱ ψόθοι hoi psóthoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ψόθου toû psóthou | τοῖν ψόθοιν toîn psóthoin | τῶν ψόθων tôn psóthōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ψόθῳ tôi psóthōi | ψόθοιν psóthoin | τοῖς ψόθοις toîs psóthois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ψόθον tòn psóthon | ψόθω psóthō | τοὺς ψόθους toùs psóthous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ψόθε psóthe | ψόθω psóthō | ψόθοι psóthoi | ||||||||||
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References
- ψόθος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 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
- Hesychius' Lexicon: ψ