γάδος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Furnée compares the word with γάζας (gázas, “kind of fish”), assuming a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɡá.dos/ → /ˈɣa.ðos/ → /ˈɣa.ðos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɡá.dos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.dos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɣa.ðos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈɣa.ðos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈɣa.ðos/

Noun

γάδος • (gádos) m (genitive γάδου); second declension

1. cod (Gadus morhua)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ γᾰ́δος; τοῦ γᾰ́δου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ γᾰ́δος ho gádos	τὼ γᾰ́δω tṑ gádō	οἱ γᾰ́δοι hoi gádoi
Genitive	τοῦ γᾰ́δου toû gádou	τοῖν γᾰ́δοιν toîn gádoin	τῶν γᾰ́δων tôn gádōn
Dative	τῷ γᾰ́δῳ tôi gádōi	τοῖν γᾰ́δοιν toîn gádoin	τοῖς γᾰ́δοις toîs gádois
Accusative	τὸν γᾰ́δον tòn gádon	τὼ γᾰ́δω tṑ gádō	τοὺς γᾰ́δους toùs gádous
Vocative	γᾰ́δε gáde	γᾰ́δω gádō	γᾰ́δοι gádoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: γάδος (gádos)
• → Translingual: Gadus

Further reading

• “γάδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• γάδος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• γάδος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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, →ISBN

Greek

Pronunciation

IPA: [ˈɣaðos]

Noun

γάδος • (gádos) m (plural γάδοι)

1. cod (marine fish of the family Gadidae)

Declension

Declension of γάδος

	singular	plural
nominative	γάδος (gádos)	γάδοι (gádoi)
genitive	γάδου (gádou)	γάδων (gádon)
accusative	γάδο (gádo)	γάδους (gádous)
vocative	γάδε (gáde)	γάδοι (gádoi)

Synonyms

• μπακαλιάρος m (bakaliáros)
• βακαλάος m (vakaláos)