Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /árktos/

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

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

Proper noun

Ἄρκτος • ‎(Árktos) f ‎(genitive Ἄρκτου); second declension

1. Ursa Major

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: Άρκτος ‎(Árktos)

References

• «Ἄρκτος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,002
• LSJ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἄρκος ‎(árkos)

Noun

ἄρκτος • ‎(árktos) f ‎(genitive ἄρκτου); second declension

1. bear
2. the north

Inflection

Derived terms

• Ἄρκτος ‎(Árktos, “Ursa Major”)
• ἀρκτικός ‎(arktikós, “Arctic”)

Descendants

• English: Arcturus
• Greek: άρκτος ‎(árktos)
• Latin: Arctūrus
• Translingual: Ursus arctos, Ursus arctos horribilis

References

• ἄρκτος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄρκτος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἄρκτος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἄρκτος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἄρκτος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «ἄρκτος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• «ἄρκτος» 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.
  • arctic idem, page 38.
  • Arctus idem, page 1002.
  • bear idem, page 66.
  • north idem, page 560.