Ποσειδῶν
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀡𐀮𐀅𐀃 (po-se-da-o); possibly from a vocative *Πότ(ε)ι Δᾶς (*Pót(e)i Dâs) from πόσις (pósis, “master, husband”) and *Δα (Γῆ (Gê), see Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr))[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /po.seː.dɔ̂ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /po.siˈdon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /po.siˈðon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /po.siˈðon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /po.siˈðon/
Proper noun
Ποσειδῶν • (Poseidôn) m (genitive Ποσειδῶνος); third declension
Usage notes
In archaic and verse, the irregular singular accusative case is Ποσειδῶ (Poseidô).
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ Ποσειδῶν ho Poseidôn | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Ποσειδῶνος toû Poseidônos | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Ποσειδῶνῐ tôi Poseidôni | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Ποσειδῶνᾰ tòn Poseidôna | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Ποσειδῶν Poseidôn | ||||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Derived terms
- Ποσειδώνιον (Poseidṓnion)
- Ποσειδώνιος (Poseidṓnios)
Descendants
- Arabic: بوسيدون
- Basque: Poseidon
- Breton: Poseidon
- Bulgarian: Посейдон (Posejdon)
- Catalan: Posidó
- Czech: Poseidón
- Danish: Poseidon
- Dutch: Poseidon
- English: Poseidon
- Estonian: Poseidon
- Finnish: Poseidon
- French: Poséidon
- Galician: Poseidón
- Georgian: პოსეიდონი (ṗoseidoni)
- German: Poseidon
- Greek: Ποσειδών (Poseidón), Ποσειδώνας (Poseidónas)
- Hebrew: פוסידון
- Hungarian: Poszeidón
- Indonesian: Poseidon
- Italian: Poseidone
- Japanese: ポセイドーン (Poseidōn)
- Korean: 포세이돈 (poseidon)
- Latin: Posidon
- Latvian: Poseidons
- Lithuanian: Poseidonas
- Low German: Poseidon
- Luxembourgish: Poseidon
- Norwegian: Poseidon
- Polish: Posejdon
- Portuguese: Posídon
- Romanian: Poseidon
- Russian: Посейдон (Posejdon)
- Serbo-Croatian: Посејдон, Posejdon
- Slovak: Poseidón
- Slovene: Pozejdon
- Spanish: Poseidón
- Thai: โพไซดอน
- Turkish: Poseidon, Posedon
- Ukrainian: Посейдон (Posejdon)
References
- ↑ Martin Nilsson. Die Geschichte der Griechischen Religion. Erster Band Verlag C. H. Beck. p 417.
Further reading
- Ποσειδῶν in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Ποσειδῶν in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,023
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