Samos

See also: samos

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σάμος (Sámos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseɪ.mɒs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Samos

1. An island belonging to the Sporades and a city on it, in the Aegean.
2. A modern Greek prefecture in the eastern part of the Aegean that includes the island along with the islands of Icaria and Fourni.

Derived terms

• Samean
• Samian
• Samiot

Translations

an island belonging to the Sporades and a city

• Bulgarian: Са́мос m (Sámos)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 薩摩斯島 / 萨摩斯岛 (zh) (Sàmósī Dǎo)

• Dutch: Samos
• Esperanto: Samoso
• French: Samos (fr)
• Galician: Samos (gl)
• German: Samos (de),
• Greek: Σάμος (el) f (Sámos)

  Ancient Greek: Σάμος f (Sámos)

• Italian: Samo f
• Latin: Samus f
• Persian: ساموس (sâmus), شامس (šâmes), شاموس (šâmus)
• Polish: Samos (pl) f
• Portuguese: Samos f
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: سیسام (sîsâm)

a prefecture in the eastern part of the Aegean

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 薩摩斯 / 萨摩斯 (Sàmósī)

• Dutch: Samos
• French: Samos (fr)
• Galician: Samos (gl)
• German: Samos (de),
• Greek: Σάμος (el) f (Sámos)

  Ancient Greek: Σᾰ́μος f (Sắmos)

• Polish: Samos (pl) f

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• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} Samos

Anagrams

• masso-, Masso, As. Mos., soams, somsa, somas

Catalan

Proper noun

Samos ?

1. Samos (island)

Galician

The monastery of Samos today

Etymology

From an earlier Samãos. Attested as Samanos in local early Medieval Latin documents, it being the name of a local monastery founded under Suevic or Gothic rule in the 6th or 7th century; either from Proto-Germanic *samanai, cf. Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌰 (samana, “together”) and Old High German gisemini (“congregation”), or from a Paleo-Hispanic, from a Celtic cognate of this Germanic forms.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsamo̝s/

Proper noun

Samos ?

1. a town and municipality of Lugo, Galicia, Spain
2. a parish of Samos, Lugo, Galicia

References

• Boullón Agrelo, Ana Isabel (1999), Antroponimia medieval galega (ss. VIII–XII), Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, →ISBN, page 404

Latin

Alternative forms

• Samus

Etymology

Transliteration of Ancient Greek Σάμος (Sámos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsa.mɔs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsaː.mos]

Proper noun

Samos f sg (genitive Samī); second declension

1. Samos

Declension

Second-declension noun (Greek-type), with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Samos
genitive	Samī
dative	Samō
accusative	Samon
ablative	Samō
vocative	Same
locative	Samī

Related terms

• Samia
• Samiārius
• Samii
• Samiolus
• Samius

References

• “Samus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Samos”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Samos in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• “Samos”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Portuguese

Proper noun

Samos f

1. Samos (an island, city, municipality, and regional unit of the North Aegean, Greece)