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θάνατος

Vocabulary form: 
qavnatoV, -ou, oJ
Definition: 

death

Erasmian: 
Modern: 
Frequency: 
120
GK: 
2505
Root: 
qanato
Cognates: 

Euthanasia ("easy death") refers to a painless death, or allowing or putting to death by withholding medical treatment.

Thanatophobia is an abnormal fear of death.

Thanatopsis is a contemplation of death, and the name of a poem by William Cullen Bryant, a good poem but unorthodox theology. "When thoughts of the last bitter hour come like a blight over thy spirit, and sad images of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, and breathless darkness, and the narrow house, make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart; ..."

Mnemonics: 

Death is better than attos.

Mnemonic Singing: 

Forbid it Lord that I should boast,
save but the death of Christ, my God.

Mnemonics

Submitted by greekmustard on Thu, 2012-04-19 09:44
Tha~nachos are death.

Submitted by brockmacd on Wed, 2016-01-27 19:45

It's a little nerdy, but the bad guy in the Avengers, the Marvel comic, is Thanos, is in love with the person 'Death', and kills as much as he can to please her - that's how I remember - Thanatos = Thanos = death

Submitted by bjschultz on Tue, 2020-09-29 08:11

The Marvel character Thanos brought death everywhere he went.

Biblical Concordance

Revelation 18:8 Therefore her plagues will come in a single day — death (thanatos | θάνατος | nom sg masc) and mourning and famine. And she will be consumed with fire, for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her.”
Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection! Over such the second death (thanatos | θάνατος | nom sg masc) has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
Revelation 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death (thanatos | θάνατος | nom sg masc) and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and they were judged, each one according to his deeds.
Revelation 20:14 Then death (thanatos | θάνατος | nom sg masc) and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death (thanatos | θάνατος | nom sg masc), the lake of fire.
Revelation 21:4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death (thanatos | θάνατος | nom sg masc) will be no more, mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the former things have passed away.”
Revelation 21:8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, those who commit murder, the sexually immoral, those who practice the occult, idolaters, and all liars — their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. That is the second death.” (thanatos | θάνατος | nom sg masc)

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