Hellas Alive Dictionary

Ancient Greek Dictionary

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Τρίτων Τρίτωνος

Structure: Τριτων (Stem)

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.

φασὶ γεννηθεῖσαν τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν παρὰ Τρίτωνι τρέφεσθαι, ᾧ θυγάτηρ ἦν Παλλάσ· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 12 3:7)
Τρίτωνι καὶ τῷ Ποσειδέωνι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 188 1:5)
καὶ Διόσ τε ἱδρύσαντο Λεχεάτου βωμόν, ἅτε ἐνταῦθα τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν τεκόντοσ, καὶ κρήνην καλοῦσι Τριτωνίδα, τὸν ἐπὶ τῷ ποταμῷ τῷ Τρίτωνι οἰκειούμενοι λόγον. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 26 10:2)
ὀνομάζουσι δὲ Τρίτωνα αὐτόν, ὅτι τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν τραφῆναι παρὰ ποταμῷ Τρίτωνι ἔχει λόγοσ, ὡσ δὴ τοῦτον τὸν Τρίτωνα ὄντα καὶ οὐχὶ τὸν Λιβύων, ὃσ ἐσ τὴν πρὸσ Λιβύῃ θάλασσαν ἐκδίδωσιν ἐκ τῆσ Τριτωνίδοσ λίμνησ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 33 11:4)

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

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