Προμηθεύς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From προμηθής (promēthḗs, “forethinking”) + -εύς (-eús), from πρό (pró) + μανθάνω (manthánō, “to learn, to know”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pro.mɛː.tʰěu̯s/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pro.me̝ˈtʰews/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pro.miˈθeɸs/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pro.miˈθefs/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pro.miˈθefs/
Proper noun
Προμηθεύς • (Promētheús) m (genitive Προμηθέως); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ Προμηθεύς ho Promētheús | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Προμηθέως toû Promēthéōs | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Προμηθεῖ tôi Promētheî | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Προμηθέᾱ tòn Promēthéā | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Προμηθεῦ Promētheû | ||||||||||||
| Notes: |
| ||||||||||||
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | Προμηθεύς Promētheús | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | Προμηθῆος / Προμηθέος Promēthêos / Promēthéos | ||||||||||||
| Dative | Προμηθῆῐ̈ / Προμηθέῐ̈ Promēthêï / Promēthéï | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | Προμηθῆᾰ / Προμηθέᾰ Promēthêa / Promēthéa | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Προμηθεῦ Promētheû | ||||||||||||
| Notes: |
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| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ Προμηθεύς ho Promētheús | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Προμηθέος toû Promēthéos | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Προμηθέῐ̈ / Προμηθεῖ tôi Promēthéï / Promētheî | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Προμηθέᾰ tòn Promēthéa | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Προμηθεῦ Promētheû | ||||||||||||
| Notes: |
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Related terms
Descendants
- → Arabic: بروميثيوس
- → Bengali: প্রমিথিউস (promithius)
- → Breton: Prometheüs
- → Bulgarian: Прометей (Prometej)
- → Catalan: Prometeu
- → Czech: Prométheus
- → Danish: Prometheus
- → Dutch: Prometheus
- → Finnish: Prometheus
- → French: Prométhée
- → German: Prometheus
- Greek: Προμηθεύς (Promithéfs), Προμηθέας (Promithéas)
- → Hebrew: פרומתאוס
- → Hungarian: Prométheusz
- → Italian: Prometeo
- → Japanese: プロメーテウス (Puromēteusu)
- → Korean: 프로메테우스 (peuromete'useu)
- → Latin: Prometheus
- → Lithuanian: Prometėjas
- → Luxembourgish: Prometheus
- → Norwegian: Prometheus
- → Persian: پرومتئوس
- → Polish: Prometeusz
- → Portuguese: Prometeu
- → Romanian: Prometeu
- → Russian: Промете́й (Prometɛ́j)
- → Serbo-Croatian: Прометеј, Prometej
- → Slovak: Prometeus
- → Slovene: Prometej
- → Spanish: Prometeo
- → Swedish: Prometheus
- → Turkish: Prometheus
- → Urdu: پرومیتھیس
See also
- Αἴθων (Aíthōn)
References
- “Προμηθεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Προμηθεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,023
- Προμηθεύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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