Τρίτων

See also: τρίτων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Cognate with Ancient Greek τρεῖς (treîs, “three”), in reference to his trident, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /trǐː.tɔːn/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.ton/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.ton/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.ton/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.ton/

Proper noun

Τρῑ́των • (Trī́tōn) m (genitive Τρῑ́τωνος); third declension

(Greek mythology) Triton (god of the sea, son of Poseidon)

Declension

Third declension of ὁ Τρῑ́των; τοῦ Τρῑ́τωνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Τρῑ́των ho Trī́tōn
Genitive	τοῦ Τρῑ́τωνος toû Trī́tōnos
Dative	τῷ Τρῑ́τωνῐ tôi Trī́tōni
Accusative	τὸν Τρῑ́τωνᾰ tòn Trī́tōna
Vocative	Τρῑ́των Trī́tōn
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Τρίτων

→ Arabic: تريتون‎
→ Bulgarian: Тритон (Triton)
→ Danish: Triton
→ Dutch: Triton
→ English: Triton
→ Estonian: Triton
→ Finnish: Triton
→ French: Triton
→ Galician: Tritón
→ German: Triton
Greek: Τρίτων (Tríton), Τρίτωνας (Trítonas)
→ Hebrew: טריטון‎
→ Hungarian: Tritón
→ Italian: Tritone
→ Japanese: トリトン
→ Latin: Trītōn
→ Lithuanian: Tritonas
→ Polish: Tryton
→ Portuguese: Tritão
→ Russian: Тритон (Triton)
→ Serbo-Croatian: Triton / Тритон
→ Spanish: Tritón
→ Swedish: Triton
→ Turkish: Triton
→ Ukrainian: Тритон (Tryton)

Further reading

“Τρίτων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Τρίτων”, 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 1,028
Τρίτων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Triton (mythology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Greek

Alternative forms

Τρίτωνας (Trítonas) (with demotic ending)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtɾi.ton/
Hyphenation: Τρί‧των

Noun

Τρίτων • (Tríton) m

(Greek mythology) Triton (god of the sea, son of Poseidon)

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