θάμνος

This word exists next to θαμινός (thaminós, “crowded, close-set”) and θαμά (thamá, “often”) just as πυκνός (puknós, “thick, dense”) next to πυκινός (pukinós, “thick”) and πύκα (púka, “thickly, strongly”); the barytonesis is caused by the substantivization. Not, as per Alessio, related to Latin tamnus (“kind of grape”). With its ending in -αμνος, the word seems Pre-Greek; its meaning makes this quite possible.

θᾰ́μνος • (thắmnos) m or f (genitive θᾰ́μνου); second declension

1. (botany) bush, shrub
2. thick copse

• → Greek: θάμνος (thámnos) (learned)
• ⇒ Translingual: Psorothamnus, Thamnotettix

• “θάμνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θάμνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θάμνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek θάμνος (thámnos).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈθa.mnos/
• Hyphenation: θά‧μνος

θάμνος • (thámnos) m (plural θάμνοι)

1. bush, shrub (woody plant of medium size)

• θάμνος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el