δειμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dwey-mós, from *dwey- (“fear”). Compare δέος (déos), Latin dirus, Old Armenian երկն (erkn).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /deː.mós/ → /ðiˈmos/ → /ðiˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /deː.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /diˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ðiˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðiˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðiˈmos/

Noun

δειμός • (deimós) m (genitive δειμοῦ); second declension

1. fear, terror

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ δειμός ho deimós	τὼ δειμώ tṑ deimṓ	οἱ δειμοί hoi deimoí
Genitive	τοῦ δειμοῦ toû deimoû	τοῖν δειμοῖν toîn deimoîn	τῶν δειμῶν tôn deimôn
Dative	τῷ δειμῷ tôi deimôi	τοῖν δειμοῖν toîn deimoîn	τοῖς δειμοῖς toîs deimoîs
Accusative	τὸν δειμόν tòn deimón	τὼ δειμώ tṑ deimṓ	τοὺς δειμούς toùs deimoús
Vocative	δειμέ deimé	δειμώ deimṓ	δειμοί deimoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Second declension of ὁ δειμός; τοῦ δειμοῦ (Attic)

Derived terms

• δειματόω (deimatóō)
• Δεῖμος (Deîmos)
• δειμώδης (deimṓdēs)

 

References

• “δειμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “δειμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• δειμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• δειμός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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