ἄνθος

From Proto-Hellenic *ántʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éndʰos. Cognate with Vedic Sanskrit अन्धस् (ándhas, “Soma, grass, herb”), Albanian endë, Old Armenian անդ (and, “field”), possibly Old Frisian åndul.^[1]

ᾰ̓́νθος • (ắnthos) n (genitive ᾰ̓́νθεος or ᾰ̓́νθους); third declension

1. flower; blossom; bloom

   Synonym: ἄνθεμον (ánthemon)

2. froth; scum
3. bloom; peak
4. brightness; brilliance

• Greek: άνθος (ánthos)
• →⇒ English: anther, antherid
• ⇒ Translingual: Chionanthus, Erythranthe

ᾰ̓́νθος • (ắnthos) m (genitive ᾰ̓́νθου); second declension

1. a small bird; possibly the yellow wagtail

• → Latin: anthus

• (noun 1) “ἄνθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• (noun 2) “ἄνθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἄνθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἄνθος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἄνθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ἄνθος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἄνθος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• “ἄνθος”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G438 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bloom idem, page 84.
  • blossom idem, page 85.
  • cream idem, page 182.
  • flower idem, page 329.
  • pick idem, page 611.
  • quintessence idem, page 667.
• 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
• Hofmann, J. B. (1949), “ἄνθος”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Griechischen‎^[2] (in German), Munich: R. Oldenbourg
• ἄνθος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011