Thanatos
/ˈθæn.əˌtɒs/noun
Death, especially personified as the Greek god or spirit of death.
Did you know?In Greek myth, Thanatos was not a violent destroyer but a calm, inevitable personification of death, often contrasted with his brother Hypnos, Sleep.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*dʰenh₂-
“to die; death”
Ancient Greek
Greek
θάνατος (thánatos)
“death”
Classical Greek
Greek
Θάνατος (Thanatos)
“Death personified as a deity or spirit”
Late Latin
Latin
thanatos
“death, used in learned borrowing from Greek”
Modern English
English
thanatos
“death; the death instinct in psychoanalytic usage”
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