Ἰάσων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Apparently from ἰάομαι (iáomai, “to heal”), making it related to the name of the goddess Ἰασώ (Iasṓ). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /i.ǎː.sɔːn/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /iˈa.son/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈa.son/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈa.son/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈa.son/

Proper noun

Ἰᾱ́σων • (Iā́sōn) m (genitive Ἰᾱ́σονος); third declension

A male given name, equivalent to English Jason

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Ἰᾱ́σων; τοῦ Ἰᾱ́σονος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ἰᾱ́σων ho Iā́sōn
Genitive	τοῦ Ἰᾱ́σονος toû Iā́sonos
Dative	τῷ Ἰᾱ́σονῐ tôi Iā́soni
Accusative	τὸν Ἰᾱ́σονᾰ tòn Iā́sona
Vocative	Ἰᾶσον Iâson
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Greek: Ιάσων (Iáson), Ιάσονας (Iásonas), Γιάσονας (Giásonas)
→ Etruscan: 𐌄𐌀𐌔𐌖𐌍 (easun)
→ Georgian: იასონი (iasoni)
→ Hebrew: יאסון‎ (Yason)
→ Latin: Iason
- → Breton: Iason
- → Bulgarian: Язон (Jazon)
- → Catalan: Jasó
- → Czech: Iásón
- → Danish: Jason
- → Dutch: Jason
- → English: Jason
- → Finnish: Iason
- → French: Jason
- → German: Iason
- → Hungarian: Iaszón
- → Icelandic: Jason
- → Italian: Giasone
- → Lithuanian: Jasonas
- → Luxembourgish: Iason
- → Norwegian: Jason
- → Polish: Jazon
- → Portuguese: Jasão
- → Romanian: Iason
- → Russian: Ясон (Jason)
- → Serbo-Croatian: Јасон, Jason
- → Sicilian: Giasuni
- → Slovene: Jazon
- → Spanish: Jasón
- → Swedish: Jason
- → Turkish: İason
- → Ukrainian: Ясон (Jason)

References

Ἰάσων in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G2394 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,014

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