ταώς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • τᾰῶς (taôs)
  • τᾰών (taṓn)
  • τᾰὧς (tahôs) Attic

Etymology

Of Pre-Greek origin; possibly from an Oriental source,[1] perhaps from Dravidian (compare Tamil தோகை (tōkai, ("peacock)) or a Turkic source (compare Turkish tavuk (hen)). Cognates include Latin pāvus, pāvō, and perhaps Hebrew טַוָּס (ṭawwā́s), Aramaic טַוסָא (ṭawsā), Arabic طَاوُوس (ṭāwūs).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

τᾰώς • (taṓs) m (genitive τᾰώ); second declension

  1. peacock
  2. type of fish

Inflection

References

  • ταώς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ταώς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ταώς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ταώς”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1457

Greek

Etymology

Ancient Greek ταώς (taṓs).

Noun

ταώς • (taós) m (uncountable) (archaic, obsolete)

  1. (astronomy) the constellation Pavo or the peacock
  2. peacock

Declension

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Further reading

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