θύμος
See also: θυμός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust”). Compare θύμον (thúmon, “thyme”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰý.mos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtʰy.mos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈθy.mos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈθy.mos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈθi.mos/
Noun
θῠ́μος • (thŭ́mos) m (genitive θῠ́μου); second declension
- a warty excrescence, so called from its likeness to a bunch of thyme-flower
- the thymus gland
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ θῠ́μος ho thŭ́mos |
τὼ θῠ́μω tṑ thŭ́mō |
οἱ θῠ́μοι hoi thŭ́moi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ θῠ́μου toû thŭ́mou |
τοῖν θῠ́μοιν toîn thŭ́moin |
τῶν θῠ́μων tôn thŭ́mōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ θῠ́μῳ tōî thŭ́mōi |
τοῖν θῠ́μοιν toîn thŭ́moin |
τοῖς θῠ́μοις toîs thŭ́mois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν θῠ́μον tòn thŭ́mon |
τὼ θῠ́μω tṑ thŭ́mō |
τοὺς θῠ́μους toùs thŭ́mous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | θῠ́με thŭ́me |
θῠ́μω thŭ́mō |
θῠ́μοι thŭ́moi | ||||||||||
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References
- “θύμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- θύμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette