θήκη

• θήγη (thḗgē)

From τίθημι (títhēmi, “to place, put”).

θήκη • (thḗkē) f (genitive θήκης); first declension

1. box, chest
2. grave, tomb, burial
3. sword sheath

• -θήκη (-thḗkē) & compounds

• Greek: θήκη f (thíki, “case, sheath”)
• → Hebrew: תִּיק (tík, tīq)
• → Latin: thēca (see there for further descendants)
• → Serbo-Croatian: teka
• → Ukrainian: тека (teka)

• “θήκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θήκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θήκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G2336 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bin idem, page 79.
  • box idem, page 92.
  • cabinet idem, page 108.
  • case idem, page 116.
  • casket idem, page 116.
  • chest idem, page 129.
  • coffer idem, page 141.
  • grave idem, page 371.
  • safe idem, page 730.
  • tomb idem, page 880.
  • trunk idem, page 898.
• θήκη, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

From Ancient Greek θήκη (thḗkē).

• IPA^(key): /ˈθi.ci/

θήκη • (thíki) f (plural θήκες)

1. case, sheath, holster (close fitting cover or container for something)

• ομπρελοθήκη (omprelothíki)

• -θήκη (-thíki)
• θηκάρι n (thikári, “sheath”)

• θήκη, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language