Ἄβυδος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The name of the Egyptian city is borrowed from Egyptian (ꜣbḏw).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /á.byː.dos/ → /ˈa.βy.ðos/ → /ˈa.vi.ðos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /á.byː.dos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈa.by.dos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.βy.ðos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.vy.ðos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈa.vi.ðos/

Proper noun

Ἄβῡδος • (Ábūdos) f (genitive Ἄβῡδου); second declension

1. Abydos (an ancient city in Egypt) with archaeological interest.
2. Abydos (An ancient city of Mysia in northwest Asia Minor in modern Turkey, on the Hellespont).

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ Ἄβυδος; τῆς Ἀβύδου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ἄβυδος hē Ábudos
Genitive	τῆς Ἀβύδου tês Abúdou
Dative	τῇ Ἀβύδῳ têi Abúdōi
Accusative	τὴν Ἄβυδον tḕn Ábudon
Vocative	Ἄβυδε Ábude
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ἀβυδηνός (Abudēnós)

Descendants

• Greek: Άβυδος (Ávydos)
• → Latin: Abȳdus, Abidos, Aboedos

Further reading

• “Ἄβυδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ἄβυδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Ἄβυδος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Ἄβυδος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 999