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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 μὴν καὶ ἄλλουσ ἴδοισ ἂν τὰ μὲν προοίμια λαμπρὰ καὶ τραγικὰ καὶ εἰσ ὑπερβολὴν μακρὰ συγγράφοντασ, ὡσ ἐλπίσαι θαυμαστὰ ἡλίκα τὰ μετὰ ταῦτα πάντωσ ἀκούσεσθαι, τὸ σῶμα δὲ αὐτὸ τὸ τῆσ ἱστορίασ μικρόν τι καὶ ἀγεννὲσ ἐπαγαγόντασ, ὡσ καὶ τοῦτο ἐοικέναι παιδίῳ, εἴ που Ἔρωτα εἶδεσ παίζοντα, προσωπεῖον Ἡρακλέουσ πάμμεγα ἢ Τιτᾶνοσ περικείμενον· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 231)
  • ἔχειν δὲ αὐτὸν τὸ ὄνομα ἀπὸ Τιτᾶνοσ Κριοῦ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 27 16:1)
  • Τίτανοσ δ’ ἀπὸ τοῦ συμβεβηκότοσ ὠνομάσθη· (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 5 27:19)

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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