Παρνασός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

As proposed by Palmer, may be related to Luwian [script needed] (parnanza, “house”) (stem parna-) and productive possessive suffix [script needed] (-ašša-). A similar toponym [Anatolian Hieroglyphs needed] (pa+ra/i-na-sa), apparently a town in Anatolia, is attested in a hieroglyphic inscription on a Luwian monument found in Karkamıš (A24a). This may be borrowed from Proto-Afroasiatic *par- house.

However, Beekes argues that according to 6th century encyclopedist Stephanus of Byzantium the mountain had an older name starting from Λ, and judging by the variation σσ/σ it may be Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Παρνᾱσός • (Parnāsós) m (genitive Παρνᾱσοῦ); second declension

  1. Mount Parnassus

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ Παρνᾱσός; τοῦ Παρνᾱσοῦ (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Παρνᾱσός
ho Parnāsós
Genitive τοῦ Παρνᾱσοῦ
toû Parnāsoû
Dative τῷ Παρνᾱσῷ
tôi Parnāsôi
Accusative τὸν Παρνᾱσόν
tòn Parnāsón
Vocative Παρνᾱσέ
Parnāsé
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • Παρνᾱσῐᾰ́ς (Parnāsiás), Παρνησῐᾰ́ς (Parnēsiás)
  • Παρνᾱ́σῐος (Parnā́sios), Παρνήσσῐος (Parnḗssios)
  • Παρνᾱσῐ́ς (Parnāsís), Παρνασσῐ́ς (Parnassís), Παρνησῐ́ς (Parnēsís)

Descendants
  • Greek: Παρνασσός (Parnassós)

References
  • “Παρνασός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Παρνασός”, 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,020
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