Βάττος

See also: βάτος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The name is said to mean "tongue-tied" or "stuttering, stammering," related to βατταρίζω (battarízō, “I stutter, say nonsense”), eventually imitative.[1] Herodotus and Pindar challenged this origin and promoted a folk etymology of the name being a translation for the Libyan/Berber word for "king."[2]

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Βᾰ́ττος • (Báttos) m (genitive Βᾰ́ττου); second declension

  1. Battus

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ Βᾰ́ττος; τοῦ Βᾰ́ττου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Βᾰ́ττος
ho Báttos
Genitive τοῦ Βᾰ́ττου
toû Báttou
Dative τῷ Βᾰ́ττῳ
tôi Báttōi
Accusative τὸν Βᾰ́ττον
tòn Bátton
Vocative Βᾰ́ττε
Bátte
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • Greek: Βάττος (Váttos)
  • → Latin: Battus

References
  • “Βάττος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Βάττος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
  • “Βάττος”, 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 1,004
  1. Graves, Robert (1960). The Greek Myths. Harmondsworth, London, England: Penguin Books. pp. s.v. Aristaeus.
  2. Dougherty, C., Carol Dougherty Assistant Professor, D. o. G. a. L. W. C. (1993). The Poetics of Colonization: From City to Text in Archaic Greece. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, USA, p. 106
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