Damastor

Latin

Alternative forms

• Adamastor

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek, probably from Ancient Greek ἀδαμάστωρ (adamástōr) (attested as an epithet of Hekate), probably from the same root as Ancient Greek ἀδάμαστος (adámastos, “indomitable”), ending in the agent-noun suffix -τωρ (-tōr).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /daˈmaːs.toːr/, [d̪äˈmäːs̠t̪oːr] or IPA^(key): /daˈmas.tor/, [d̪äˈmäs̠t̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /daˈmas.tor/, [d̪äˈmäst̪or]

Proper noun

Damā̆stō̆r m sg (genitive Damā̆storis); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) name of a giant
   • c. 370 CE – c. 404 CE, Claudian, Gigantomachy :

     quod timuit, iam totus erat; saevusque Damastor,
     ad depellendos iaculum cum quaereret hostes,
     Germani rigidum misit pro rupe cadaver.

   • 5th century AD, Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina XV Epithalamium.20:

     hic rotat excussum vibrans in sidera Pindum
     Enceladus, rabido fit missilis Ossa Typhoeo;
     Porphyrion Pangaea rapit, Rhodopenque Damastor
     Strymonio cum fonte levat, veniensque superne
     intorto calidum restinguit flumine fulmen

     • 1936 translation by W. B. Anderson

       In one part Enceladus brandishes Pindus, torn from its base, and sends it whirling to the stars, while Ossa is the missile of frenzied Typhoeus; Porphyrion snatches up Pangaeus, Damastor lifts up Rhodope along with Strymon’s spring, and when the glowing thunderbolt comes down he hurls the river at it and quenches it.

   • c. 1562, Giuseppe Sporeni, Carmina 1.2. Crucis adoratio.107:

     Fronte dolor, qualem peritura Belides urna
     Porphyrionque Athamasque ferunt saevusque Damastor
     Et Coeo cum fratre Dymas, qualem excipit ingens
     Sisyphus Aegeonque et opaca silentia durae
     Persephones atroque gementes sulphure manes.

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Damā̆stō̆r
genitive	Damā̆storis
dative	Damā̆storī
accusative	Damā̆storem Damā̆stora
ablative	Damā̆store
vocative	Damā̆stō̆r