Ποσειδῶν

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Ποσείδαν (Poseídan), Ποσειδάν (Poseidán) — Aeolic
• Ποσειδάων (Poseidáōn) — Homeric
• Ποσειδέων (Poseidéōn) — Ionic
• Ποσοιδάν (Posoidán) — Arcadian
• Ποτειδάν (Poteidán), Ποτειδάϝων (Poteidáwōn), Ποτειδάων (Poteidáōn), Ποτ(ε)ιδᾶς (Pot(e)idâs) — Doric
• Ποτοίδαν (Potoídan) — Aeolic
• Ποὁιδάν (Pohoidán) — Laconian

Etymology

Uncertain. Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀡𐀮𐀅𐀃 (po-se-da-o); possibly from a vocative *Πότ(ε)ι Δᾶς (*Pót(e)i Dâs) from πόσις (pósis, “master, husband”) and *Δα (*Da) (Γῆ (Gê), see Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr) and Mycenaean Greek 𐀁𐀚𐀯𐀅𐀃𐀚 (e-ne-si-da-o-ne), which would be cognate with ἐννοσίγαιος (ennosígaios)).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /po.seː.dɔ̂ːn/ → /po.siˈðon/ → /po.siˈðon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /po.seː.dɔ̂ːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /po.siˈdon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /po.siˈðon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /po.siˈðon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /po.siˈðon/

Proper noun

Ποσειδῶν • (Poseidôn) m (genitive Ποσειδῶνος); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) Poseidon

Usage notes

In archaic and verse, the irregular singular accusative case is Ποσειδῶ (Poseidô).

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Ποσειδῶν; τοῦ Ποσειδῶνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ποσειδῶν ho Poseidôn
Genitive	τοῦ Ποσειδῶνος toû Poseidônos
Dative	τῷ Ποσειδῶνῐ tôi Poseidôni
Accusative	τὸν Ποσειδῶνᾰ / Ποσειδῶ tòn Poseidôna / Poseidô
Vocative	Πόσειδον Póseidon
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ποσειδεών (Poseideṓn)
• Ποσειδώνιον (Poseidṓnion)
• Ποσειδώνιος (Poseidṓnios)

Descendants

• → Arabic: بُوسِيدُون (būsīdūn)
• → Basque: Poseidon
• → Breton: Poseidon
• → Bulgarian: Посейдон (Posejdon)
• → Catalan: Posidó
• → Chinese: 海神波塞冬, Bōsāidōng
• → Czech: Poseidón
• → Danish: Poseidon
• → Dutch: Poseidon
• → English: Poseidon
• → Estonian: Poseidon
• → Finnish: Poseidon
• → French: Poséidon
• → Galician: Poseidón
• → Georgian: პოსეიდონი (ṗoseidoni)
• → German: Poseidon
• Greek: Ποσειδών (Poseidón), Ποσειδώνας (Poseidónas)
• → Hebrew: פוסידון
• → Hungarian: Poszeidón
• → Indonesian: Poseidon
• → Italian: Poseidone
• → Japanese: ポセイドーン (Poseidōn)
• → Korean: 포세이돈 (Poseidon)
• → Latin: Posīdōn
• → Latvian: Poseidons
• → Lithuanian: Poseidonas
• → Low German: Poseidon
• → Luxembourgish: Poseidon
• → Norwegian: Poseidon
• → Polish: Posejdon
• → Portuguese: Posídon
• → Romanian: Poseidon
• → Russian: Посейдон (Posejdon)
• → Serbo-Croatian: Посејдон, Posejdon
• → Sicilian: Pusiduni
• → Slovak: Poseidón
• → Slovene: Pozejdon
• → Spanish: Poseidón
• → Thai: โพไซดอน
• → Turkish: Poseidon, Posedon
• → Ukrainian: Посейдон (Posejdon)

Further reading

• “Ποσειδῶν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ποσειδῶν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,023
• http://opsopaus.com/OM/BA/Plethon/Poseidon.html