Olympus

English

Etymology

From Latin Olympus, from Ancient Greek Ὄλυμπος (Ólumpos), likely of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈlɪmpəs/

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Proper noun

Olympus

1. The highest mountain in Greece; in Ancient Greek mythology the home of the gods.
   • 1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 731:

     Sleeping-car passengers, however, will know little of their entry into Greece until, at 6 a.m. on the third morning after leaving Paris, the short train runs over the Vardar plain, with dawn glimpses of Mount Athos to the east and of cloud-capped Olympus across the gulf to the south, past the rebuilt yard and into the new passenger station at Salonica.

Translations

mountain

• Arabic: أُولِيمْبُوس m (ʔulimbus)
• Armenian: Օլիմպոս (hy) (Ōlimpos)
• Belarusian: Алі́мп m (Alímp)
• Bulgarian: Оли́мп m (Olímp)
• Catalan: Olimp
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奧林匹斯山 / 奥林匹斯山 (zh) (Àolínpǐsī shān)

• Czech: Olymp (cs) m
• Finnish: Olympos (fi)
• French: Olympe (fr) m
• Georgian: ოლიმპო (olimṗo)
• German: Olymp (de) m
• Greek: Όλυμπος (el) m (Ólympos)

  Ancient: Ὄλυμπος m (Ólumpos)

• Hebrew: אולימפוס m
• Hindi: ओलिंप (olimp)
• Inuktitut: ᐅᓕᒻᐳᔅ (olimpos)
• Irish: Oilimpeas m
• Italian: Olimpo (it) m
• Japanese: オリンポス山 (Orimposu-san)
• Korean: 올림포스 산 (Ollimposeu san)
• Macedonian: О́лимп m (Ólimp)
• Maori: Orimapa
• Ottoman Turkish: اولیمپوس (Olimpus)
• Persian: المپ (fa) (olamp)
• Polish: Olimp (pl) m
• Portuguese: Olimpo (pt) m
• Russian: Оли́мп (ru) m (Olímp)
• Sicilian: Alimpu m, Ulimpu m
• Spanish: Olimpo (es) m
• Tagalog: Olimpo
• Turkish: Olimpos
• Ukrainian: Олі́мп m (Olímp)
• Vietnamese: núi Olympus

See also

1. Olympic
2. Olympia

Latin

Alternative forms

• Olympos

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὄλυμπος (Ólumpos, “Olympus”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /oˈlym.pus/, [ɔˈlʲʏmpʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈlim.pus/, [oˈlimpus]

Proper noun

Olympus m sg (genitive Olympī); second declension

1. Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece, thought of as the home of the gods in Ancient Greek mythology.
2. (by transference from the previous sense) heaven
3. One of various other mountains of the same name

Proper noun

Olympus f sg (genitive Olympī); second declension

1. A city name taken from the name of a neighboring mountain

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Olympus
genitive	Olympī
dative	Olympō
accusative	Olympum
ablative	Olympō
vocative	Olympe

Descendants

• Asturian: Olimpu
• Catalan: Olimp
• French: Olympe
• Italian: Olimpo
• Portuguese: Olimpo
• Romanian: Olimp
• Sicilian: Alimpu, Ulimpu
• Spanish: Olimpo

References

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