atheos

== Latin == === Alternative forms === atheus === Etymology === From Ancient Greek ἄθεος (átheos, “godless, without a god”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈa.tʰe.ɔs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈaː.te.os] === Noun === atheos m (genitive atheī); second declension an atheist; one who rejected the gods worshipped by the wider society. 45 B.C.E., Cicero, De natura deorum, 1.63 quid Diagoras atheos qui dictus est […] Diagoras, who is called an atheist, […] ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (Greek-type). ==== Descendants ==== === References === “atheos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “atheos”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. atheos in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016