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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

  • καὶ οἱ ἀλλόφυλοι παραγίνονται καὶ συνέπεσαν εἰσ τὴν κοιλάδα τῶν Τιτάνων (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 5:18)
  • καὶ προσέθεντο ἔτι ἀλλόφυλοι τοῦ ἀναβῆναι καὶ συνέπεσαν ἐν τῇ κοιλάδι τῶν Τιτάνων. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 5:22)
  • οὐ γὰρ ὑπέπεσεν ὁ δυνατὸσ αὐτῶν ὑπὸ νεανίσκων, οὐδὲ υἱοὶ τιτάνων ἐπάταξαν αὐτόν, οὐδὲ ὑψηλοὶ γίγαντεσ ἐπέθεντο αὐτῷ, ἀλλὰ Ἰουδὶθ θυγάτηρ Μεραρὶ ἐν κάλλει προσώπου αὐτῆσ παρέλυσεν αὐτόν. (Septuagint, Liber Iudith 16:6)
  • εἰ δὲ ὑπερεπαινῶν τοὺσ λόγουσ ὡσ δῆθεν εὐμηχάνουσ ὄντασ τὸν σοφώτατον τῶν Τιτάνων ἐπιφημίζεισ αὐτοῖσ, ὁρ́α μή τισ εἰρωνείαν φῇ καὶ μυκτῆρα οἱο͂ν τὸν Ἀττικὸν προσεῖναι τῷ ἐπαίνῳ. (Lucian, Prometheus es in verbis 2:1)
  • Βιθυνὸσ δὲ μῦθοσ, καὶ οὗτοσ οὐ πάνυ τῶν Ἰταλιωτικῶν ἀλλότριοσ, φησὶν τὸν Πρίαπον δαίμονα πολεμιστήν, τῶν Τιτάνων οἶμαι ἕνα ἢ τῶν Ἰδαίων Δακτύλων τοῦτο ἔργον πεποιημένον, τὰ ἐνόπλια παιδεύειν, παραλαβόντα παρὰ τῆσ Ἥρασ τὸν Ἄρη, παῖδα μὲν ἔτι, σκληρὸν δὲ καὶ πέρα τοῦ μετρίου ἀνδρικόν, μὴ πρότερον ὁπλομαχεῖν διδάξαι πρὶν τέλειον ὀρχηστὴν ἀπειργάσατο. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 21:1)

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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