Ὄλυμπος

See also: Όλυμπος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Οὔλυμπος (Oúlumpos)

Etymology

Probably cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀄𐀬𐀠𐀊𐀍 (u-ru-pi-ja-jo, description of men, possibly ethnical), which may indicate original /u/ in the anlaut.

According to Beekes, Pre-Greek. Suspecting originally an appellative word for “mountain” ολύ- (olú-), he tentatively identified the suffix -ump-.

According to Janda, a compound of the PIE roots *wel- (“to turn, wind; to enclose, wrap, encase”) and *pah₂- (“to protect, herd”), more precisely from the heteroclitic *wéluṛ ~ *welun- (“wrapping”), which directly gave Ancient Greek εἶλαρ (eîlar, “covering, shelter, defence, bulwark”), ὄλυνος (ólunos, “the rubbed off and discarded in the course of cleaning”), ὄλυνθος (ólunthos, “unripe fig”) and ὄλυρα (ólura, “amelcorn”). Further cognates include ἔλυμος (élumos, “millet; sheath, case, etui”), ἔλυτρον (élutron, “cover, case, sheath”), Albanian valle (“a kind of circular dance”), Russian вал (val, “billow, roller; rampart”), Proto-Germanic *waluz (“staff, stick”), Sanskrit वरुण (varuṇa, “ocean, sun, the gods”) and ऊर्मि (ūrmi, “wave, billow”), Latin vallus (“stake, pale; palisade”) and volvo (“to roll”). For more see εἰλύω (eilúō, “to wrap, enfold”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ó.lym.pos/ → /ˈo.lym.pos/ → /ˈo.lim.bos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ó.lym.pos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.lym.pos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.lym.pos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.lym.pos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.lim.bos/

Proper noun

Ὄλῠμπος • (Ólumpos) m (genitive Ὀλῠ́μπου); second declension

1. Olympus (a mountain in Greece)
2. A mountain in Mysia, now called Uludağ

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Ὄλῠμπος; τοῦ Ὀλῠ́μπου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ὄλῠμπος ho Ólumpos
Genitive	τοῦ Ὀλῠ́μπου toû Olúmpou
Dative	τῷ Ὀλῠ́μπῳ tôi Olúmpōi
Accusative	τὸν Ὄλῠμπον tòn Ólumpon
Vocative	Ὄλῠμπε Ólumpe
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ὀλυμπία (Olumpía)
• Ὀλύμπια (Olúmpia)
• Ὀλυμπίαζε (Olumpíaze)
• Ὀλυμπιακός (Olumpiakós)
• Ὀλυμπιάς (Olumpiás)
• Ὀλυμπίασι (Olumpíasi)
• Ὀλυμπιεῖον (Olumpieîon)
• Ὀλυμπικός (Olumpikós)
• Ὀλυμπιόδωρος (Olumpiódōros)
• Ὀλυμπιονίκης (Olumpioníkēs)
• Ὀλύμπιος (Olúmpios)

 

Descendants

Descendants

• → Albanian: Olymp
• → Basque: Olinpo
• → Breton: Olympos
• → Bulgarian: Олимп (Olimp)
• → Czech: Olymp
• → Danish: Olympen
• → Estonian: Olümpos
• → Finnish: Olympos
• → Georgian: ოლიმპო (olimṗo), ულუმბო (ulumbo)
• Greek: Όλυμπος (Ólympos)
• → Hebrew: אולימפוס (Olimpos)
• → Hungarian: Olümposz
• → Japanese: オリンポス (Orinposu)
• → Korean: 올림포스 (Ollimposeu)
• → Latin: Olympus
  • Asturian: Olimpu
  • Catalan: Olimp
  • → Dutch: Olympus
  • → English: Olympus
  • French: Olympe
  • → German: Olymp
  • Italian: Olimpo
  • Portuguese: Olimpo
  • Romanian: Olimp
  • Spanish: Olimpo
• → Lithuanian: Olimpas
• → Luxembourgish: Olymp
• → Norwegian: Olympos
• → Ottoman Turkish: اوليمپوس (Olimpos)
  • → Turkish: Olimpos
• → Polish: Olimp
• → Russian: Олимп (Olimp)
• → Serbo-Croatian: Олимп, Olimp
• → Sicilian: Olimpu
• → Slovak: Olymp
• → Slovene: Olimp
• → Swedish: Olympen
• → Ukrainian: Олімп (Olimp)

Further reading

• “Ὄλυμπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ὄλυμπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Ὄλυμπος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• “Ὄλυμπος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019