Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• τᾰῶς ‎(taôs)
• τᾰών ‎(taṓn)

Noun

τᾰώς • ‎(taṓs) m ‎(genitive τᾰώ); Attic declension

1. peacock
2. type of fish

Inflection

References

• ταώς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ταώς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ταώς» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • peacock idem, page 601.
  • popinjay idem, page 626.
• 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

Greek

Etymology

Ancient Greek ταώς ‎(taṓs).

Noun

ταώς • ‎(taós) m ‎(uncountable)

1. (astronomy) the constellation Pavo or the peacock
2. (obsolete) peacock

Declension

Synonyms

• (peacock): παγώνι n ‎(pagóni)