Τάνταλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tán.ta.los/ → /ˈtan.ta.los/ → /ˈtan.da.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tán.ta.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtan.ta.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈtan.ta.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈtan.ta.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈtan.da.los/

Proper noun

Τάντᾰλος • (Tántalos) m (genitive Ταντᾰ́λου); second declension

1. Tantalus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Τάντᾰλος; τοῦ Ταντᾰ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Τάντᾰλος ho Tántalos
Genitive	τοῦ Ταντᾰ́λου toû Tantálou
Dative	τῷ Ταντᾰ́λῳ tôi Tantálōi
Accusative	τὸν Τάντᾰλον tòn Tántalon
Vocative	Τάντᾰλε Tántale
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ταντᾰλείᾱ (tantaleíā)
• Ταντᾰ́λειος (Tantáleios)
• ταντᾰλῐ́ζω (tantalízō)
• ταντᾰλόομαι (tantalóomai)
• Ταντᾰλῐ́δης (Tantalídēs)
• Ταντᾰλῐ́ς (Tantalís)

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: Тантал (Tantal)
• → Czech: Tantalos
• → Danish: Tantalos
• → Dutch: Tantalus
• → Finnish: Tantalos
• → French: Tantale
• → German: Tantalos
• Greek: Τάνταλος (Tántalos)
• → Hebrew: טנטלוס
• → Italian: Tantalo
• → Latin: Tantalus
• → Lithuanian: Tantalas
• → Norwegian: Tantalos
• → Polish: Tantal
• → Portuguese: Tântalo
• → Russian: Танта́л (Tantál)
• → Serbo-Croatian: Тантал, Tantal
• → Sicilian: Tàntalu
• → Slovak: Tantalos
• → Slovene: Tantal
• → Spanish: Tántalo
• → Swedish: Tantalos
• → Turkish: Tantalos
• → Ukrainian: Тантал (Tantal)

References

• “Τάνταλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Τάνταλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Τάνταλος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• “Τάνταλος”, 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 1,026
• Τάνταλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette