ὦτος

See also: Ὦτος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὠτός (ōtós)

Etymology

From οὖς (oûs, “ear”). Compare ὠτίς (ōtís, “bustard”), from the same stem.

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/

Noun

ὦτος • (ôtos) m (genitive ὤτου); second declension

1. long-eared owl (Asio otus)

   Synonym: νυκτικόραξ (nuktikórax)

2. (figuratively) booby, easily deceived person

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὦτος; τοῦ ὤτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὦτος ho ôtos	τὼ ὤτω tṑ ṓtō	οἱ ὦτοι hoi ôtoi
Genitive	τοῦ ὤτου toû ṓtou	τοῖν ὤτοιν toîn ṓtoin	τῶν ὤτων tôn ṓtōn
Dative	τῷ ὤτῳ tôi ṓtōi	τοῖν ὤτοιν toîn ṓtoin	τοῖς ὤτοις toîs ṓtois
Accusative	τὸν ὦτον tòn ôton	τὼ ὤτω tṑ ṓtō	τοὺς ὤτους toùs ṓtous
Vocative	ὦτε ôte	ὤτω ṓtō	ὦτοι ôtoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: otus
  • → Translingual: Otus

Further reading

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