θησαυρός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Beekes derives it from Pre-Greek, based on its technical semantic domain and lack of resemblance to various Indo-European roots.^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰɛː.sau̯.rós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰe̝.sawˈros/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θi.saˈβros/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θi.saˈvros/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θi.saˈvros/

Noun

θησαυρός • (thēsaurós) m (genitive θησαυροῦ); second declension

treasure
vault, repository, chest

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ θησαυρός; τοῦ θησαυροῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ θησαυρός ho thēsaurós	τὼ θησαυρώ tṑ thēsaurṓ	οἱ θησαυροί hoi thēsauroí
Genitive	τοῦ θησαυροῦ toû thēsauroû	τοῖν θησαυροῖν toîn thēsauroîn	τῶν θησαυρῶν tôn thēsaurôn
Dative	τῷ θησαυρῷ tōî thēsaurōî	τοῖν θησαυροῖν toîn thēsauroîn	τοῖς θησαυροῖς toîs thēsauroîs
Accusative	τὸν θησαυρόν tòn thēsaurón	τὼ θησαυρώ tṑ thēsaurṓ	τοὺς θησαυρούς toùs thēsauroús
Vocative	θησαυρέ thēsauré	θησαυρώ thēsaurṓ	θησαυροί thēsauroí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Greek: θησαυρός (thisavrós)
Latin: thēsaurus
- Catalan: tesaurus, tresor
- Old French: tresor (see there for further descendants)
- French: thésaurus
- Galician: tesouro
- Italian: tesauro, tesoro
- Sicilian: tisoru
- Spanish: tesauro, tesoro
- Portuguese: tesauro, tesouro, tesoiro, thesaurus
- Romanian: tezaur
- → Albanian: thesar
- → Armenian: թեզաուրուս (tʻezaurus)
- → Czech: tezaurus
- → Danish: tesaurus
- → Dutch: thesaurus
- → English: thesaurus
- → Esperanto: tezaŭro
- → German: Thesaurus
- → Hungarian: tezaurusz
- → Ido: tezauro
- → Indonesian: tesaurus
- → Macedonian: тезаурус (tezaurus)
- → Malay: tesaurus
- → Norwegian: tesaurus
- → Polish: tezaurus
- → Russian: теза́урус (tezáurus)
- → Serbo-Croatian: tezaurus/тезаурус
- → Slovak: tezaurus
- → Swedish: tesaurus

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “θησαυρός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 548

Further reading

“θησαυρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“θησαυρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
θησαυρός 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
“θησαυρός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G2344 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.
- hoard idem, page 402.
- store idem, page 820.
- treasure idem, page 891.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /θi.saˈvɾos/
Rhymes: -os
Hyphenation: θη‧σαυ‧ρός

Noun

θησαυρός • (thisavrós) m (plural θησαυροί)

Declension

Declension of **θησαυρός**
	singular	plural
nominative	θησαυρός (thisavrós)	θησαυροί (thisavroí)
genitive	θησαυρού (thisavroú)	θησαυρών (thisavrón)
accusative	θησαυρό (thisavró)	θησαυρούς (thisavroús)
vocative	θησαυρέ (thisavré)	θησαυροί (thisavroí)

Derived terms

κυνήγι θησαυρού n (kynígi thisavroú, “treasure hunt”)