HOW TO PRONOUNCE
thoth
/ˈθoʊθ/
Press play to hear how to pronounce thoth.
American Pronunciation Guide · 0:33
Watch on YouTube ↗
Watch on YouTube ↗
What does thoth mean?
proper noun
- The ancient Egyptian moon god of wisdom, learning, and magic, usually depicted as an ibis or baboon.
- 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.
Definitions regrouped for readability · CC BY-SA 4.0
IPA pronunciation
/ˈθoʊθ/
Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
In the pages of books
See this word in context.
The god Thoth of the Egyptians, who was the god of a foreign country, and who invented letters, was called At-hothes.
Palamedes and Diomedes of Trojan celebrity, the Lydians of Herodotus, the Thoth of Plato, the Hermes of the Asiatic Society's philosopher; in fact nearly every one of the Gods who has in turn served as the Great Mythological Divinity has been credited with the discovery of chess.
More book examples (2)
The answer to the first of these was very simple: each people naturally held that language was given it directly or indirectly by some special or national deity of its own; thus, to the Chaldeans by Oannes, to the Egyptians by Thoth, to the Hebrews by Jahveh.
“Well, you know, Casaubon was a little twisted about Ladislaw. Ladislaw has told me the reason—dislike of the bent he took, you know—Ladislaw didn’t think much of Casaubon’s notions, Thoth and Dagon—that sort of thing: and I fancy that Casaubon didn’t like the independent position Ladislaw had taken up. I saw the letters between them, you know. Poor Casaubon was a little buried in books—he didn’t know the world.”