Proper noun
Olympus
- The highest mountain in Greece; in Ancient Greek mythology the home of the gods.
1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 731:Sleeping-car passengers, however, will know little of their entry into Greece until, at 6 a.m. on the third morning after leaving Paris, the short train runs over the Vardar plain, with dawn glimpses of Mount Athos to the east and of cloud-capped Olympus across the gulf to the south, past the rebuilt yard and into the new passenger station at Salonica.
Translations
mountain
- Arabic: أُولِيمْبُوس m (ʔulimbus)
- Armenian: Օլիմպոս (hy) (Ōlimpos)
- Belarusian: Алі́мп m (Alímp)
- Bulgarian: Оли́мп m (Olímp)
- Catalan: Olimp
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 奧林匹斯山/奥林匹斯山 (zh) (Àolínpǐsī shān)
- Czech: Olymp (cs) m
- Finnish: Olympos (fi)
- French: Olympe (fr) m
- Georgian: ოლიმპო (olimṗo)
- German: Olymp (de) m
- Greek: Όλυμπος (el) m (Ólympos)
- Ancient: Ὄλυμπος m (Ólumpos)
- Hebrew: אולימפוס m
- Hindi: ओलिंप (olimp)
- Inuktitut: ᐅᓕᒻᐳᔅ (olimpos)
- Irish: Oilimpeas m
- Italian: Olimpo (it) m
- Japanese: オリンポス山 (Orimposu-san)
- Korean: 올림포스 산 (Ollimposeu san)
- Macedonian: О́лимп m (Ólimp)
- Maori: Orimapa
- Ottoman Turkish: اولیمپوس (Olimpus)
- Persian: المپ (fa) (Olemp)
- Polish: Olimp (pl) m
- Portuguese: Olimpo (pt) m
- Russian: Оли́мп (ru) m (Olímp)
- Sicilian: Alimpu m, Ulimpu m
- Spanish: Olimpo (es) m
- Tagalog: Olimpo
- Turkish: Olimpos
- Ukrainian: Олі́мп m (Olímp)
- Vietnamese: núi Olympus
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Proper noun
Olympus m sg (genitive Olympī); second declension
- Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece, thought of as the home of the gods in Ancient Greek mythology.
- (by transference from the previous sense) heaven
- One of various other mountains of the same name
Proper noun
Olympus f sg (genitive Olympī); second declension
- A city name taken from the name of a neighboring mountain
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
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References
- “Olympus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Olympus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.