Thoth en · PROPN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈθəʊθ/ (UK)
- θōθʹ (UK)
- θōθʹ (General-American)
- /ˈθoʊθ/ (General-American)
Etymology
Via Latin Thōth from Ancient Greek Θώθ (Thṓth), from Egyptian ḏḥwtj (“Thoth”, literally “he who is like the ibis”). Compare Coptic Ⲑⲱⲟⲩⲧ (Thōout).
Meanings
- (Egyptian) The ancient Egyptian moon god of wisdom, learning, and magic, usually depicted as an ibis or baboon.
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The first month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the first month of the season of Akhet. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Thoth has been in roughly September.
Now the month of Thoth was the first of the Egyptian year, because this month begins a new period.
1842, Frederick Portal, “Correspondence—Swedenborg and Champollion”, in The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information, Parochial History, and Documents Respecting the State of the Poor, Progress of Education, Etc, volume 21:In that case this quadrimenstruum would be the first one of the Egyptian year, Thoth, Phaophi, Hathyr, Choeac.
1989, Bernard Pyne Grenfell, Arthur Surridge Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, volume 56:To November 1 add 7, and the ſum will ſhew, that the ſeventh day of Thoth fell, that year, upon the eighth day of November.
1762, John Kennedy, A Complete System of Astronomical Chronology Unfolding the Scriptures:
Translations (33)
de Thot (Egyptian god) · pt Tot (Egyptian god) · eo Toto (Egyptian god) · it Theuth (Egyptian god) · scn Thot (Egyptian god) · sv Thot (Egyptian god) · fi Thot (Egyptian god) · ka ტოტი (Egyptian god) · ar تحوت (Egyptian god) · pl Tot (Egyptian god) · is Þoþ (Egyptian god) · ka თოტი (Egyptian god) · pt Tote (Egyptian god) · fr Thot (Egyptian god) · es Tot (Egyptian god) · ru Тот (Egyptian god) · grc Θεύθ (Egyptian god) · el Θωθ (Egyptian god) · bg Тот (Egyptian god) · cop ⲑⲱⲑ (Egyptian god) · cs Thovt (Egyptian god) · grc Θωΰθ (Egyptian god) · pl Thot (Egyptian god) · grc Θώθ (Egyptian god) · it Toth (Egyptian god) · it Thoth (Egyptian god) · he תְחֹות (Egyptian god) · cmn 托特 (Egyptian god) · mr थोथ (Egyptian god) · ko 토트 (Egyptian god) · ja トート (Egyptian god) · egy G26:t*y-C3 (Egyptian god) · it Thot (Egyptian god)