Βάττος

See also: βάτος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The name is said to mean "tongue-tied" or "stuttering, stammering," related to βατταρίζω (battarízō, “I stutter, say nonsense”), eventually imitative. Herodotus and Pindar challenged this origin and promoted a folk etymology of the name being a translation for the Libyan/Berber word for "king."

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bát.tos/ → /ˈβat.tos/ → /ˈva.tos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bát.tos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbat.tos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβat.tos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvat.tos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈva.tos/

Proper noun

Βᾰ́ττος • (Báttos) m (genitive Βᾰ́ττου); second declension

1. Battus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Βᾰ́ττος; τοῦ Βᾰ́ττου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Βᾰ́ττος ho Báttos
Genitive	τοῦ Βᾰ́ττου toû Báttou
Dative	τῷ Βᾰ́ττῳ tôi Báttōi
Accusative	τὸν Βᾰ́ττον tòn Bátton
Vocative	Βᾰ́ττε Bátte
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Βάττος (Váttos)
• → Latin: Battus
  • → Translingual: Battus

References

• “Βάττος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Βάττος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “Βάττος”, 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 1,004