θάνατον (thanaton)

θάνατον is an Ancient Greek form of θάνατος, meaning “death”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 1,183 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.446: ἀντὶ δὲ τοῦ θάνατόν μοι ἄφαρ θεὸς ἐγγυαλίξαι,

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 9.7.43: … ἐποιήσαμεν τὸν τρόπον· καὶ τίς ἔφυ σοφὸς ὧδε, τίς ἔργον ἔρεξε τοσοῦτον ὅσσον ὁ παντοδαὴς ἤνυσε Δημόκριτος; ὃς Θάνατον παρεόντα τρίʼ ἤματα δώμασιν ἔσχεν καὶ θερμοῖς ἄρτων ἄσθμασιν ἐξένισεν. τοιοῦτος μὲν ὁ βίος τἀνδρός.

Pausanias, Description of Greece 5.18.1: … τέρους διεστραμμένους τοὺς πόδας. δηλοῖ μὲν δὴ καὶ τὰ ἐπιγράμματα, συνεῖναι δὲ καὶ ἄνευ τῶν ἐπιγραμμάτων ἔστι Θάνατόν τε εἶναι σφᾶς καὶ Ὕπνον καὶ ἀμφοτέροις Νύκτα αὐτοῖς τροφόν.

All forms of θάνατος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.