Ἄτοσσα

Ἄτοσσα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Old Persian *Utauθa (literally “well trickling, well granting”)[1] or *ʰUtauθa- (literally “bestowing very richly”)[2], from *hu- (“good”) + *tauθa- (“bestowing richly”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬵𐬎𐬙𐬀𐬊𐬯𐬁‎ (Hutaosā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /á.tos.sa/ → /ˈa.tos.sa/ → /ˈa.to.sa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /á.tos.sa/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈa.tos.sa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.tos.sa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.tos.sa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈa.to.sa/

Proper noun

Ἄτοσσᾰ • (Átossa) f (genitive Ἀτόσσης); first declension

1. a female given name from Old Persian, equivalent to English Atossa

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Ἄτοσσᾰ; τῆς Ἀτόσσης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ἄτοσσᾰ hē Átossa
Genitive	τῆς Ἀτόσσης tês Atóssēs
Dative	τῇ Ἀτόσσῃ têi Atóssēi
Accusative	τὴν Ἄτοσσᾰν tḕn Átossan
Vocative	Ἄτοσσᾰ Átossa
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Άτοσσα (Átossa)
• Latin: Atossa

Further reading

• Ἄτοσσα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,003

1. Rüdiger Schmitt, "ATOSSA" in Encyclopædia Iranica, December 15, 1987
2. Tavernier, Jan (2007) Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550–330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 212