Τιθωνός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Furnée compares τιτώ (titṓ, “day”) and possibly tītiō (“firebrand”); because of the τ/θ variation, the word could be from a Pre-Greek substrate.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tiː.tʰɔː.nós/ → /ti.θoˈnos/ → /ti.θoˈnos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tiː.tʰɔː.nós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ti.tʰoˈnos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ti.θoˈnos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ti.θoˈnos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ti.θoˈnos/

Proper noun

Τῑθωνός • (Tīthōnós) m (genitive Τῑθωνοῦ); second declension

1. Tithonos, Tithonus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Τῑθωνός; τοῦ Τῑθωνοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Τῑθωνός ho Tīthōnós
Genitive	τοῦ Τῑθωνοῦ toû Tīthōnoû
Dative	τῷ Τῑθωνῷ tôi Tīthōnôi
Accusative	τὸν Τῑθωνόν tòn Tīthōnón
Vocative	Τῑθωνέ Tīthōné
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Τιθωνός (Tithonós)
• → Latin: Tithonus
• Armenian: Թիֆոնոս (Tʻifonos)
• French: Tithon
• Hungarian: Tithónosz
• Italian: Titone, Titono
• Russian: Тифон (Tifon), Титон (Titon)
• Spanish: Titono, Titón

References

• Furnée, Edzard Johan (1972) Die wichtigsten konsonantischen Erscheinungen des Vorgriechischen (Janua linguarum. Series practica; 150) (in German), The Hague and Paris: Mouton, page 191
• 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, page 1484

Further reading

• “Τιθωνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Τιθωνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Τιθωνός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,028
• http://opsopaus.com/OM/BA/Plethon/Tithonos.html