Greek

Παρθένος

Proper noun

Παρθένος • ‎(Parthénos) f

1. (astronomy) Virgo (constellation)
2. (astrology) Virgo (Zodiac sign)

Declension

Related terms

• παρθένα f ‎(parthéna, “virgin”)
• παρθενιά f ‎(partheniá, “virginity”)
• παρθένος ‎(parthénos, “virgin”)

External links

• Παρθένος (αστερισμός) on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• παρσένος ‎(parsénos) (Laconian)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /parθénos/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /parθénos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /paɾθénos/

Adjective

παρθένος • ‎(parthénos) m, f ‎(neuter παρθένον); second declension

1. maidenly
2. chaste

Inflection

Synonyms

• παρθένιος ‎(parthénios)

Noun

παρθένος • ‎(parthénos) f ‎(genitive παρθένου); second declension

1. young, unmarried woman; maiden
2. virgin
3. pupil
4. epithet of various goddesses, most commonly of Athena

Usage notes

Παρθένος was sometimes used as a masculine noun to denote a young, unmarried man in later Greek. {citation needed}

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• παρθένος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• παρθένος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• παρθένος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «παρθένος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «παρθένος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• παρθένος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3933”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «παρθένος» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • damsel idem, page 194.
  • girl idem, page 359.
  • maid idem, page 507.
  • maiden idem, page 507.
  • maidenly idem, page 507.
  • single idem, page 777.
  • unmarried idem, page 925.
  • virgin idem, page 954.
  • virginal idem, page 954.

Greek

Adjective

παρθένος • ‎(parthénos) m ‎(feminine παρθένα or παρθένος, neuter παρθένο)

1. virgin

   η Παρθένος Μαρία (the Virgin Mary)

2. pure, unadulterated

Declension

Related terms

• παρθένα f ‎(parthéna, “virgin”)
• παρθενιά f ‎(partheniá, “virginity”)
• παρθενογένεση f ‎(“parthenogenesis”)
• Παρθένος f ‎(Parthénos, “Virgo”)

Noun

παρθένος • ‎(parthénos) f ‎(plural παρθένοι)

1. virgin
2. Virgo (someone born under that zodiacal sign)

Declension