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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Τιτάν Τιτάνε Τιτάνες
Genitive Τιτάνος Τιτάνοιν Τιτάνων
Dative Τιτάνι Τιτάνοιν Τιτᾶσιν*
Accusative Τιτάνα Τιτάνε Τιτάνας
Vocative Τιτάν Τιτάνε Τιτάνες

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

  • λέγουσι γοῦν αὐτῷ οἱ Τιτᾶνεσ πρὸσ τὸν Προμηθέα ὅτι ἥκομεν τοὺσ σοὺσ ἄθλουσ τούσδε, Προμηθεῦ, δεσμοῦ τε πάθοσ τόδ̓ ἐποψόμενοι. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 19 2:4)
  • μῶν ἢ γίγαντάσ τινασ αὖθισ ἡ γῆ ἔφυσεν, ἢ οἱ Τιτᾶνεσ διαρρήξαντεσ τὰ δεσμὰ καὶ τῆσ φρουρᾶσ ἐπικρατήσαντεσ αὖθισ ἡμῖν ἐναντία αἴρονται τὰ ὅπλα; (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 3:2)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ ὁ παιανισμὸσ τῶν Θρᾳκῶν τιτανισμὸσ ὑπὸ τῶν Ἑλλήνων λέγεται κατὰ μίμησιν τῆσ ἐν παιᾶσι φωνῆσ, καὶ οἱ Τιτᾶνεσ ἐκλήθησαν Πηλαγόνεσ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter fragments 90:1)

Synonyms

  1. the Titans

Related

Similar forms

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

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