Τιτυός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell, to crowd”), Proto-Indo-European *ti-tuh₂-o- (a reduplication of *tewh₂-?).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Τῐτῠός • (Tituós) m (genitive Τῐτῠοῦ); second declension

  1. Tityus; Tityos

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ Τῐτῠός; τοῦ Τῐτῠοῦ (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Τῐτῠός
ho Tituós
Genitive τοῦ Τῐτῠοῦ
toû Tituoû
Dative τῷ Τῐτῠῷ
tôi Tituôi
Accusative τὸν Τῐτῠόν
tòn Tituón
Vocative Τῐτῠέ
Titué
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
Second declension of Τῐτῠός; Τῐτῠοῦ (Epic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative Τῐτῠός
Tituós
Genitive Τῐτῠοῦ / Τῐτῠοῖο / Τῐτῠόο
Tituoû / Tituoîo / Tituóo
Dative Τῐτῠῷ
Tituôi
Accusative Τῐτῠόν
Tituón
Vocative Τῐτῠέ
Titué
Notes:
  • Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Derived terms
  • Τῐτῠοκτόνος (Tituoktónos)

Descendants
  • → Breton: Tityos
  • → Bulgarian: Титий (Titij)
  • → Czech: Tityos
  • → English: Tityus, Tityos
  • → Finnish: Tityos
  • → French: Tityos
  • → German: Tityos
  • Greek: Τιτυός (Tityós)
  • → Italian: Tizio
  • → Latin: Tityus
  • → Lithuanian: Titijas
  • → Luxembourgish: Tityos
  • → Polish: Tytios
  • → Portuguese: Tityas
  • → Serbo-Croatian: Titija
  • → Spanish: Ticio
  • → Ukrainian: Тітій (Titij)

References
  • “Τιτυός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Τιτυός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “Τιτυός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • “Τιτυός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,028
  • Τιτυός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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