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.meˈtʰeʍs/
- (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
- προμήθειᾰ (promḗtheia)
- Προμήθειᾰ (Promḗtheia)
- προμήθειον (promḗtheion)
- προμηθευτής (promētheutḗs)
- προμηθεύω (promētheúō)
Descendants
- Arabic: بروميثيوس
- Bengali: প্রমিথিউস (prômithius)
- 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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