θρόος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- θροῦς (throûs) — Attic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰrew-, the same root of θρέομαι (thréomai, “to shriek, proclaim”) and Old Armenian երդնում (erdnum, “to swear, take an oath”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰró.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtʰro.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈθro.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈθro.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈθro.os/
Noun
θρόος • (thróos) m (genitive θρόου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ θρόος ho thróos |
τὼ θρόω tṑ thróō |
οἱ θρόοι hoi thróoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ θρόου toû thróou |
τοῖν θρόοιν toîn thróoin |
τῶν θρόων tôn thróōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ θρόῳ tōî thróōi |
τοῖν θρόοιν toîn thróoin |
τοῖς θρόοις toîs thróois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν θρόον tòn thróon |
τὼ θρόω tṑ thróō |
τοὺς θρόους toùs thróous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | θρόε thróe |
θρόω thróō |
θρόοι thróoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀθρόος (athróos)
Further reading
- “θρόος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θρόος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “θρόος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- θρόος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- θρόος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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