μόθος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

No cognates outside Greek. Has been compared with Proto-Slavic *metàti (“to throw”) and with Sanskrit मथति (mathati, “to stir”) but this seems unprobable. Perhaps from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mó.tʰos/ → /ˈmo.θos/ → /ˈmo.θos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mó.tʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.tʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.θos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.θos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.θos/

• Hyphenation: μό‧θος

Noun

μόθος • (móthos) m (genitive μόθου); second declension

1. battle din

   Synonyms: κῠδοιμός (kudoimós), ὅμᾰδος (hómados)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μόθος; τοῦ μόθου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μόθος ho móthos	τὼ μόθω tṑ móthō	οἱ μόθοι hoi móthoi
Genitive	τοῦ μόθου toû móthou	τοῖν μόθοιν toîn móthoin	τῶν μόθων tôn móthōn
Dative	τῷ μόθῳ tôi móthōi	τοῖν μόθοιν toîn móthoin	τοῖς μόθοις toîs móthois
Accusative	τὸν μόθον tòn móthon	τὼ μόθω tṑ móthō	τοὺς μόθους toùs móthous
Vocative	μόθε móthe	μόθω móthō	μόθοι móthoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μόθουρα (móthoura)
• μόθων (móthōn)

 

Further reading

• “μόθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μόθος 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