ἄνθος
See also: άνθος
Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /án.tʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈan.tʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈan.θos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈan.θos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈan.θos/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Hellenic *ántʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éndʰos. Cognate with Vedic Sanskrit अन्धस् (ándhas, “Soma, grass, herb”), Albanian endë, Old Armenian անդ (and, “field”), possibly Old Frisian åndul.
Noun
ᾰ̓́νθος • (ánthos) n (genitive ᾰ̓́νθεος or ᾰ̓́νθους); third declension
- flower, blossom, bloom
- froth, scum
- bloom, peak
- brightness, brilliance
Inflection
Third declension of τὸ ᾰ̓́νθος; τοῦ ᾰ̓́νθους (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ᾰ̓́νθος tò ánthos | τὼ ᾰ̓́νθει tṑ ánthei | τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓́νθη tà ánthē | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ᾰ̓́νθους toû ánthous | τοῖν ᾰ̓νθοῖν toîn anthoîn | τῶν ᾰ̓νθέων / ᾰ̓νθῶν tôn anthéōn / anthôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ᾰ̓́νθει tôi ánthei | τοῖν ᾰ̓νθοῖν toîn anthoîn | τοῖς ᾰ̓́νθεσῐ / ᾰ̓́νθεσῐν toîs ánthesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ᾰ̓́νθος tò ánthos | τὼ ᾰ̓́νθει tṑ ánthei | τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓́νθη tà ánthē | ||||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓́νθος ánthos | ᾰ̓́νθει ánthei | ᾰ̓́νθη ánthē | ||||||||||
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Third declension of ᾰ̓́νθος; ᾰ̓́νθεος (Epic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ᾰ̓́νθος ánthos | ᾰ̓́νθει / ᾰ̓́νθεε ánthei / ánthee | ᾰ̓́νθεᾰ ánthea | ||||||||||
Genitive | ᾰ̓́νθεος / ᾰ̓́νθευς ántheos / ántheus | ᾰ̓νθέοιν anthéoin | ᾰ̓νθέων anthéōn | ||||||||||
Dative | ᾰ̓́νθει / ᾰ̓́νθεῐ̈ ánthei / ántheï | ᾰ̓νθέοιν anthéoin | ᾰ̓́νθεσῐ / ᾰ̓́νθεσῐν ánthesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | ᾰ̓́νθος ánthos | ᾰ̓́νθει / ᾰ̓́νθεε ánthei / ánthee | ᾰ̓́νθεᾰ ánthea | ||||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓́νθος ánthos | ᾰ̓́νθει / ᾰ̓́νθεε ánthei / ánthee | ᾰ̓́νθεᾰ ánthea | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀνθέω (anthéō)
- ἀνθήλη (anthḗlē)
- ἀνθίας (anthías)
- ἄνθινος (ánthinos)
Descendants
- Greek: άνθος (ánthos)
- →⇒ English: chrysanthemum, anther, antherid
- New Latin: Chionanthus
Noun
ᾰ̓́νθος • (ánthos) m (genitive ᾰ̓́νθου); second declension
- a small bird, possibly the yellow wagtail.
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ ᾰ̓́νθος; τοῦ ᾰ̓́νθου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ᾰ̓́νθος ho ánthos | τὼ ᾰ̓́νθω tṑ ánthō | οἱ ᾰ̓́νθοι hoi ánthoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ᾰ̓́νθου toû ánthou | τοῖν ᾰ̓́νθοιν toîn ánthoin | τῶν ᾰ̓́νθων tôn ánthōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ᾰ̓́νθῳ tôi ánthōi | τοῖν ᾰ̓́νθοιν toîn ánthoin | τοῖς ᾰ̓́νθοις toîs ánthois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ᾰ̓́νθον tòn ánthon | τὼ ᾰ̓́νθω tṑ ánthō | τοὺς ᾰ̓́νθους toùs ánthous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓́νθε ánthe | ᾰ̓́νθω ánthō | ᾰ̓́νθοι ánthoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: anthus
Further reading
- (noun 1) “ἄνθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- (noun 2) “ἄνθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄνθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἄνθος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἄνθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ἄνθος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἄνθος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- “ἄνθος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G438 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- bloom idem, page 84.
- blossom idem, page 85.
- cream idem, page 182.
- flower idem, page 329.
- pick idem, page 611.
- quintessence idem, page 667.
- 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
- Hofmann, J. B. (1949), “ἄνθος”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Griechischen (in German), Munich: R. Oldenbourg