ταώς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

τᾰῶς (taôs)
τᾰών (taṓn)

Etymology

Borrowed from an unknown Oriental source; compare Tamil தோகை (tōkai, “plumage, peacock”). Cognates include Latin pāvus, pāvō, and perhaps Hebrew טווס \ טַוָּס‎ (ṭawwās).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ta.ɔ̌ːs/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /taˈos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /taˈos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /taˈos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /taˈos/

Noun

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

peacock
type of fish

Inflection

Attic second declension of ὁ τᾰώς; τοῦ τᾰώ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ τᾰώς ho taṓs	τὼ τᾰώ tṑ taṓ	οἱ τᾰῴ hoi taṓi
Genitive	τοῦ τᾰώ toû taṓ	τοῖν τᾰῴν toîn taṓin	τῶν τᾰών tôn taṓn
Dative	τῷ τᾰῴ tôi taṓi	τοῖν τᾰῴν toîn taṓin	τοῖς τᾰῴς toîs taṓis
Accusative	τὸν τᾰώ / τᾰών tòn taṓ(n)	τὼ τᾰώ tṑ taṓ	τοὺς τᾰώς toùs taṓs
Vocative	τᾰώς taṓs	τᾰώ taṓ	τᾰῴ taṓi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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.
- peacock idem, page 601.
- popinjay idem, page 626.
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

Greek

Etymology

Ancient Greek ταώς (taṓs).

Noun

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

(astronomy) the constellation Pavo or the peacock
peacock

Declension

Declension of ταώς (taós)

	singular
nominative	ταώς •
genitive	ταώ •
accusative	ταώ •
vocative	ταώ •

Synonyms

(peacock): παγώνι n (pagóni)

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