Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

Τιτάν

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Τιτάν Τιτᾶνος

Structure: Τιταν (Stem)

Etym.: The oldest deriv. of the name is given in Hes., the stretchers, strivers; others connect it with ti/tas (from ti/nw), avengers.

Sense

  1. the Titans, Titan

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὁ μὲν Καύκασοσ, ὦ Ἥφαιστε, οὗτοσ, ω τὸν ἄθλιον τουτονὶ Τιτᾶνα προσηλῶσθαι δεήσει· (Lucian, Prometheus, (no name) 1:1)
  • μόνον δὴ πρόσθεν ἄλλον ἐν πόνοισ δαμέντ’ ἀδαμαντοδέτοισ Τιτᾶνα λύμαισ εἰσιδόμαν, θεόν, Ἄτλαντοσ αἰὲν; (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, choral, epode1)
  • τερψίχορον, Τιτᾶνα, τελέστορα, τιμήεντα, ὑμναγόρην, ὕπατον, ὑψαύχενα, ὑψήεντα, Φοῖβον, φοιβάζοντα, φιλοστέφανον, φρενογηθῆ, χρησμαγόρην, χρύσεον, χρυσόχροα, χρυσοβέλεμνον, ψαλμοχαρῆ, ψάλτην, ψευσίστυγα, ψυχοδοτῆρα, ὠκύπον, ὠκυεπῆ, ὠκύσκοπον, ὡρεσιδώτην. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 525 4:1)
  • ἀναστρέψασι δὲ ἐσ τὴν ὁδὸν διαβᾶσί τε αὖθισ τὸν Ἀσωπὸν καὶ ἐσ κορυφὴν ὄρουσ ἥξασιν, ἐνταῦθα λέγουσιν οἱ ἐπιχώριοι Τιτᾶνα οἰκῆσαι πρῶτον· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 11 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. the Titans

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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