ἄρκτος

See also: άρκτος and Ἄρκτος

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos (“bear”). Cognates include Latin ursus, Sanskrit ऋक्ष (ṛ́kṣa), Old Armenian արջ (arǰ), and Albanian ari. The meaning of “north” derives from Ἄρκτος (Árktos, “Ursa Major”), because the constellation is in the northern part of the sky.

ᾰ̓́ρκτος • (árktos) f (genitive ᾰ̓́ρκτου); second declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓́ρκτος hē árktos	τὼ ᾰ̓́ρκτω tṑ árktō	αἱ ᾰ̓́ρκτοι hai árktoi
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓́ρκτου tês árktou	τοῖν ᾰ̓́ρκτοιν toîn árktoin	τῶν ᾰ̓́ρκτων tôn árktōn
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓́ρκτῳ têi árktōi	τοῖν ᾰ̓́ρκτοιν toîn árktoin	ταῖς ᾰ̓́ρκτοις taîs árktois
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓́ρκτον tḕn árkton	τὼ ᾰ̓́ρκτω tṑ árktō	τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓́ρκτους tā̀s árktous
Vocative	ᾰ̓́ρκτε árkte	ᾰ̓́ρκτω árktō	ᾰ̓́ρκτοι árktoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“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 (2006–2024)
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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- arctic idem, page 38.
- arctus idem, page 38.
- bear idem, page 66.
- north idem, page 562.