Herodotos

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἡρόδοτος (Hēródotos).

Herodotos

1. Alternative form of Herodotus.
   • 1892 July, William Cranston Lawton, “Looking Toward Salamis”, in The Atlantic Monthly‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2022:

     Perhaps the most surprising characteristic, however, of Herodotos’ literary work is the outward unity which he has so largely succeeded in giving to this somewhat heterogeneous mass of information concerning nearly all the nations of the earth then known to the Greeks.

   • 1994 March 22, Jan Breslauer, “THEATER REVIEW : An Eclectic ‘Oresteia’ Opens Actors’ Gang’s New Home”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[2], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 November 2025:

     They are shadowed by a robed chorus of Beckettian sages--Homer (Joseph Grimm), Hesiod (Gary Kelley), Herodotos (Daniel Parker) and Thucydides (Michael Rivkin)--given to Joseph Campbell-like pronouncements on the power of myth.

   • 1998 October 27, Suzy Menkes, “Russian Heritage:Inspiration in Gold, Humanity in Ivory”, in The New York Times‎^[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 November 2025:

     The Scythian collection is designed not just to echo a past civilization, recorded in the classical works of Herodotos and Pliny; it is also intended as a clarion call to the Russians to look to their jewelry heritage and their wealth of precious stones.

From Ancient Greek Ἡρόδοτος (Hēródotos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈherodotos/, [ˈhe̞ro̞ˌdo̞t̪o̞s̠]
• Rhymes: -otos
• Syllabification^(key): He‧ro‧do‧tos
• Hyphenation^(key): He‧ro‧do‧tos

Herodotos

1. Herodotus (ancient Greek historian)