Προμηθεύς
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- Προμᾱθεύς (Promātheús) — Doric
Etymology
From προμηθής (promēthḗs, “forethinking”) + -εύς (-eús).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pro.mɛː.tʰěu̯s/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pro.me̝ˈtʰeʍs/
- (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 or Προμηθέος); third declension (Attic, Ionic)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ Προμηθεύς ho Promētheús | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Προμηθέως toû Promēthéōs | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Προμηθεῖ tōî Promētheî | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Προμηθέᾱ tòn Promēthéā | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Προμηθεῦ Promētheû | ||||||||||||
| Notes: |
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| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | Προμηθεύς Promētheús | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | Προμηθῆος / Προμηθέος Promēthêos / Promēthéos | ||||||||||||
| Dative | Προμηθῆῐ̈ / Προμηθέῐ̈ Promēthêĭ̈ / Promēthéĭ̈ | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | Προμηθῆᾰ / Προμηθέᾰ Promēthêă / Promēthéă | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Προμηθεῦ Promētheû | ||||||||||||
| Notes: |
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| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ Προμηθεύς ho Promētheús | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Προμηθέος toû Promēthéos | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Προμηθέῐ̈ / Προμηθεῖ tōî Promēthéĭ̈ / Promētheî | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Προμηθέᾰ tòn Promēthéă | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Προμηθεῦ Promētheû | ||||||||||||
| Notes: |
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Derived terms
- Προμήθειος (Promḗtheios), προμήθειος (promḗtheios)
- Προμήθειᾰ (Promḗtheiă)
- Προμηθεῖς (Promētheîs)
Related terms
- Ἐπιμηθεύς (Epimētheús)
- προμήθειᾰ (promḗtheiă)
- προμήθειον (promḗtheion)
- προμηθευτής (promētheutḗs)
- προμηθεύω (promētheúō)
Descendants
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
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “προμηθής”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1237: “DER > line 2 > 2. Προμηθ-εύς”
Further reading
- “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[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,023
- Προμηθεύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Προμηθεύς, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011