Epimetheus

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἐπιμηθεύς (Epimētheús, “afterthought, hindsight”).

Proper noun

Epimetheus

1. (Greek mythology) Son of Iapetus and Clymene, brother to Atlas, Menoetius and Prometheus, of whom he ignored warnings to beware of any gifts from Zeus. He accepted Pandora as his wife, thereby bringing sorrow to the world; father to Pyrrha.
2. (astronomy) A moon of the planet Saturn.

Derived terms

• Epimethean

Translations

son of Iapetus and Clymene

• Afrikaans: Epimeteus
• Arabic: ابيمثيوس
• Armenian: Էպիմեթևս (hy) (Ēpimetʻews)
• Azerbaijani: Epimetey
• Basque: Epimeteo (eu)
• Belarusian: Эпіметэй (Epimjetej)
• Breton: Epimetheüs
• Bulgarian: Епиметей (Epimetej)
• Catalan: Epimeteu
• Czech: Epimétheus
• Danish: Epimetheus
• Dutch: Epimetheus
• Estonian: Epimetheus
• Finnish: Epimetheus
• French: Épiméthée (fr)
• Galician: Epimeteo (gl)
• German: Epimetheus
• Greek: Επιμηθέας (el) m (Epimithéas)
• Greenlandic: Epimetheusi
• Hebrew: אֶפּימֵתֶאוּס
• Hungarian: Epimétheusz
• Indonesian: Epimetheus
• Inuktitut: ᐃᐱᒦᑎᐅᔅ (ipimiitios)
• Italian: Epimeteo
• Japanese: エピメーテウス (ja) (Epimēteusu), エピメテウス (ja) (Epimeteusu)
• Korean: 에피메테우스 (epimete'useu)
• Latin: Epimetheus
• Lithuanian: Epimetėjas
• Macedonian: Епиметеј (Epimetej)
• Mazanderani: اپیمتئوس
• Persian: اپیمتئوس
• Polish: Epimeteusz
• Portuguese: Epimeteu
• Romanian: Epimeteu
• Russian: Эпимете́й m (Epimetéj)
• Scots: Epimetheus
• Slovene: Epimetej
• Spanish: Epimeteo
• Swedish: Epimetheus
• Tagalog: Epimeteo, Epimetheus
• Thai: เอพิมีเทียส
• Turkish: Epimetheus
• Ukrainian: Епіметей (Epimetej)
• Uzbek: Epimetey
• Waray-Waray: Epimetheus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐπιμηθεύς (Epimētheús).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /e.piˈmeː.tʰeu̯s/, [ɛpɪˈmeːt̪ʰɛu̯s̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.piˈme.teu̯s/, [epiˈmɛːt̪eu̯s]

Proper noun

Epimētheus m sg (genitive Epimētheī or Epimētheos); second declension

1. (Greek mythology) Epimetheus

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Epimētheus
genitive	Epimētheī Epimētheos
dative	Epimētheō
accusative	Epimētheum Epimēthea
ablative	Epimētheō
vocative	Epimētheu

References

• “Epimetheus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Epimetheus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Turkish

Proper noun

Epimetheus

1. (Greek mythology) Epimetheus