Samos
See also: samos
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σάμος (Sámos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈseɪ.mɒs/
Proper noun
Samos
Translations
an island belonging to the Sporades and a city
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a prefecture in the eastern part of the Aegean
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Catalan
Galician
Etymology
From an earlier Samãos. Attested as Samanos in local early Medieval Latin documents, it being the name of a local monastery founded under Suevic or Gothic rule in the 6th or 7th century; either from Proto-Germanic *samanai, cf. Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌰 (samana, “together”) and Old High German gisemini (“congregation”), or from a a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, from a Celtic cognate of this Germanic forms.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsamo̝s/
References
- Boullón Agrelo, Ana Isabel (1999) Antroponimia medieval galega (ss. VIII–XII), Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, →ISBN, page 404
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σάμος (Sámos).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsa.mos/, [ˈs̠ämɔs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsa.mos/, [ˈsäːmos]
Declension
Second-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Samos |
Genitive | Samī |
Dative | Samō |
Accusative | Samon |
Ablative | Samō |
Vocative | Same |
Related terms
- Samius
References
- “Samus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Samos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Samos”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
Portuguese
Proper noun
Samos f
- Samos (an island, city, municipality, and regional unit of North Aegean, Greece)
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