Τιτυός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell, to crowd”), Proto-Indo-European *ti-tuh₂-o- (a reduplication of *tewh₂-?).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ti.ty.ós/ → /ti.tyˈos/ → /ti.tiˈos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ti.ty.ós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ti.tyˈos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ti.tyˈos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ti.tyˈos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ti.tiˈos/

Proper noun

Τῐτῠός • (Tituós) m (genitive Τῐτῠοῦ); second declension

1. Tityus; Tityos

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Τῐτῠός; τοῦ Τῐτῠοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Τῐτῠός ho Tituós
Genitive	τοῦ Τῐτῠοῦ toû Tituoû
Dative	τῷ Τῐτῠῷ tôi Tituôi
Accusative	τὸν Τῐτῠόν tòn Tituón
Vocative	Τῐτῠέ Titué
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Second declension of Τῐτῠός; Τῐτῠοῦ (Epic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	Τῐτῠός Tituós
Genitive	Τῐτῠοῦ / Τῐτῠοῖο / Τῐτῠόο Tituoû / Tituoîo / Tituóo
Dative	Τῐτῠῷ Tituôi
Accusative	Τῐτῠόν Tituón
Vocative	Τῐτῠέ Titué
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Derived terms

• Τῐτῠοκτόνος (Tituoktónos)

Descendants

• → Breton: Tityos
• → Bulgarian: Титий (Titij)
• → Czech: Tityos
• → English: Tityus, Tityos
• → Finnish: Tityos
• → French: Tityos
• → German: Tityos
• Greek: Τιτυός (Tityós)
• → Italian: Tizio
• → Latin: Tityus
• → Lithuanian: Titijas
• → Luxembourgish: Tityos
• → Polish: Tytios
• → Portuguese: Tityas
• → Serbo-Croatian: Titija
• → Spanish: Ticio
• → Ukrainian: Тітій (Titij)

References

• “Τιτυός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Τιτυός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Τιτυός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• “Τιτυός”, 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 1,028
• Τιτυός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette