γάδος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Furnée compares the word with γάζας (gázas, “kind of fish”), assuming a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɡá.dos/ → /ˈɣa.ðos/ → /ˈɣa.ðos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɡá.dos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.dos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɣa.ðos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈɣa.ðos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈɣa.ðos/

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Noun

γάδος • (gádos) m (genitive γάδου); second declension

1. cod (Gadus morhua)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ γᾰ́δος; τοῦ γᾰ́δου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ γᾰ́δος ho gắdos	τὼ γᾰ́δω tṑ gắdō	οἱ γᾰ́δοι hoi gắdoi
Genitive	τοῦ γᾰ́δου toû gắdou	τοῖν γᾰ́δοιν toîn gắdoin	τῶν γᾰ́δων tôn gắdōn
Dative	τῷ γᾰ́δῳ tôi gắdōi	τοῖν γᾰ́δοιν toîn gắdoin	τοῖς γᾰ́δοις toîs gắdois
Accusative	τὸν γᾰ́δον tòn gắdon	τὼ γᾰ́δω tṑ gắdō	τοὺς γᾰ́δους toùs gắdous
Vocative	γᾰ́δε gắde	γᾰ́δω gắdō	γᾰ́δοι gắdoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: γάδος (gádos)
• → Translingual: Gadus

Further reading

• “γάδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• γάδος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• γάδος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• 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

Greek

Pronunciation

IPA: [ˈɣaðos]

Noun

γάδος • (gádos) m (plural γάδοι)

1. cod (marine fish of the family Gadidae)

Declension

Declension of γάδος

	singular	plural
nominative	γάδος (gádos)	γάδοι (gádoi)
genitive	γάδου (gádou)	γάδων (gádon)
accusative	γάδο (gádo)	γάδους (gádous)
vocative	γάδε (gáde)	γάδοι (gádoi)

Synonyms

• μπακαλιάρος m (bakaliáros)
• βακαλάος m (vakaláos)