Παλλάς

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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Likely derived from πάλλω (pállō), meaning "to brandish", given to Athena as an epithet of "she who brandishes" a spear.[1]

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Παλλάς (Pallásf (genitive Παλλάδος); third declension

  1. Pallas (Athena)
  2. Pallas, daughter of Triton

Usage notes

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Παλλάς (Pallás) is feminine and uses the third declension stem Παλλάδ-. The similarly-spelt name Πάλλας (Pállas) is masculine and uses the different third declension stem Πάλλαντ-.

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Greek: Παλλάδα (Palláda)

References

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  1. ^ Παλλάς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Παλλάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Παλλάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Παλλάς”, 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 1,003