Ancient Greek

Proper noun

Μᾰρᾰθών • ‎(Marathṓn) m ‎(genitive Μᾰρᾰθῶνος); third declension

1. Marathon, Attica, Greece
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 3.4.9
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 13.110

Inflection

Usage notes

The word is used with a feminine article in Pindar.

Derived terms

• Μαραθῶνάδε ‎(Marathônáde)
• Μαραθῶνι ‎(Marathôni)
• Μαραθώνιος ‎(Marathṓnios)
• Μαραθωνόθεν ‎(Marathōnóthen)

Descendants

• Greek:
  • Μαραθών ‎(Marathón)
  • Μαραθώνας ‎(Marathónas)
• Latin: Marathon

References

• Μαραθών in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Μαραθών in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Μαραθών in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Μαραθών in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,016