Ὦτος

Ὦτος

See also: ὦτος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Said to be from ωτος (ōtos, “infinite, insatiable”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̂ː.tos/ → /ˈo.tos/ → /ˈo.tos/

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

Proper noun

Ὦτος • (Ôtos) m (genitive Ὤτου); second declension

1. Otus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Ὦτος; τοῦ Ὤτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ὦτος ho Ôtos
Genitive	τοῦ Ὤτου toû Ṓtou
Dative	τῷ Ὤτῳ tôi Ṓtōi
Accusative	τὸν Ὦτον tòn Ôton
Vocative	Ὦτε Ôte
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Ώτος (Ótos)
• Latin: Ōtus

References

• “Ὦτος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019
• Ὦτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

1. Nouveau dictionnaire grec moderne-français et français grec moderne. (1882). France: Garnier, p. 134
2. Pickering, J. (1829). A Greek and English Lexicon: Adapted to the Authors Read in the Colleges and Schools of the United States, and to Other Greek Classics. United States: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, p. 80