θήρ
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *kʷʰḗr, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwer-. Cognates include Latin ferus (“wild, savage”) and Old Church Slavonic звѣрь (zvěrĭ, “wild animal”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰɛ̌ːr/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tʰe̝r/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /θir/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /θir/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /θir/
Noun
θήρ • (thḗr) m or f (genitive θηρός); third declension
Usage notes
- Originally masculine gender but later feminine.
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ, ἡ θήρ ho, hē thḗr |
τὼ θῆρε tṑ thêre |
οἱ, αἱ θῆρες hoi, hai thêres | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς θηρός toû, tês thērós |
τοῖν θηροῖν toîn thēroîn |
τῶν θηρῶν tôn thērôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ, τῇ θηρῐ́ tōî, tēî thērĭ́ |
τοῖν θηροῖν toîn thēroîn |
τοῖς, ταῖς θηρσῐ́ / θηρσῐ́ν toîs, taîs thērsĭ́(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν, τὴν θῆρᾰ tòn, tḕn thêră |
τὼ θῆρε tṑ thêre |
τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς θῆρᾰς toùs, tā̀s thêrăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | θήρ thḗr |
θῆρε thêre |
θῆρες thêres | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- θηρίον (thēríon)
Descendants
References
- “θήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “θήρ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- θήρ 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
- θήρ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “θήρ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- θήρ, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011