How do you say pantheon?

[Darklance]

I've always said it *pan-thee-on*
Today I heard it Par-tha-non
Another time I had heard Panth-eon
Dictionary.com has it as pan·the·on (not sure if this is the same as mine)
Its not really a common word so I was wondering if I've been saying it wrong all these years?

 

[Skarp Hedin]

EDIT: bleh, double post.

 

[Skarp Hedin]

In modern English, it would be pronounced just as you've got it: pan-THEE-on, stress on the second syllable.

In ancient Greek (whee, trivia), you'd get pan-THAY-own, again with stress on the second syllable (though I may have the stress wrong on that word, it's been a while.

Now, the Parthenon is a great big ol' temple in Athens, wherein was worshiped the local pantheon, heh.

 

[Darklance]

He he...I told him that he was mixed up and that that was a temple in Rome but he insisted it was both.

 

[Moulin Rogue]

Yep, you got it.

Parthenon in Greece:
http://www.travel-library.com/europe/greece/venkat/Parthenon-02s.jpg

Pantheon in Rome:
http://users.abac.com/dkiel/italy/rome/pantheon.jpg

 

[Buttercup]

In modern English, it would be pronounced just as you've got it: pan-THEE-on, stress on the second syllable.

Actually, I've always heard it pronounced PAN-thee-on. I checked the American Heritage dictionary, and they agree with me that the accent is on the first syllable.

 

[candidus_cogitens]

a word from a scholar

I know Greek and Latin. Here's what I can tell you.

Pantheon and Parthenon are both Greek words, but they are unrelated in meaning. Parthenos (with an 's') means virgin, "parthenon" means the temple of the virgin. It refers to Athena, who is the goddess that was worshipped in the Parthenon, a temple in Athens. In the Parthenon, they only worshipped Athena, not a whole pantheon.

Pantheon is generally pronounced with the accent on the first syllable, not the second, which is reflective of the fact that the word derives originally from Greek. However, there is some justification for placing the accent on the second syllable, since that is how it would have been pronounced in Latin. However, it came into Latin from the Greek. In Greek and in Latin, it refers to a temple devoted to all gods. There is one particularly famous temple, known as the Pantheon, in Rome. In English, however, we usually do not use the word to refer to a temple, but rather to the gods themselves, taken as a group.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Yeah, Parthenon is is a different word; reminds me of how some friends of mine always pronounced "barbarian" as "bavarian."

 

[el-remmen]

Shielding his eyes with his hands he can see Mount Hater rise in the distance. His long journey home is nearly complete. Nemmerle hops into this thread.

How do you say 'Pantheon' indeed?

There is a distance howling and gabbering of chaos and lawlessness that now appears on the road behind him, a violent scratchy jumble on the scrap paper of the universe, a lousy collection of hangers-on, simpering beggars, forgotten gods and faded hipsters.

It is gonna be quite a home-coming.

 

[Tiefling]

It is gonna be quite a home-coming.

*Sigh*

If only...