adyton

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄδυτον (áduton); compare adytum.

Noun

adyton (plural adyta or adytons)

1. Synonym of adytum
   • 1988, Joseph Eddy Fontenrose, Didyma: Apollo's Oracle, Cult, and Companions, University of California Press, page 40:

     The temple had no opisthodomos as usually understood, but this name was given at Didyma to the west wall of the adyton. The adyton floor was covered with a pavement in later centuries, but in the third century B.C. a grove of bay trees, it appears, grew in the adyton (and this is probably true of the archaic Didymeion).

   • 1998 [Routledge], Rodney Castleden, Atlantis Destroyed, 2001, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), Paperback, page 101,

     Here too is the only adyton so far discovered at Akrotiri. There are four in the temple at Knossos, and because the Akrotiri adyton is embellished with frescoes illuminating its use it is a crucial example, throwing light on the way the four adyta at Knossos were used.

   • 2002, Warwick Ball, Rome in the East: The Transformation of an Empire‎^[2], Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 337:

     Others with similar elaborate adytons are at Qasr Neba and Sfira in Lebanon.

Anagrams

• Dayton

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἄδυτον (áduton). First attested in 1842.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈdɘ.tɔn/

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• Rhymes: -ɘtɔn
• Syllabification: a‧dy‧ton

Noun

adyton m inan

1. (Ancient Greece, religion) adytum (the innermost sanctuary or shrine in a temple, from where oracles were given)

Declension

Declension of adyton

	singular	plural
nominative	adyton	adytony
genitive	adytonu	adytonów
dative	adytonowi	adytonom
accusative	adyton	adytony
instrumental	adytonem	adytonami
locative	adytonie	adytonach
vocative	adytonie	adytony

Further reading

• adyton in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “adyton”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• adyton in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego