θύρα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *tʰurā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer- (“door”).[1]
Cognates include Sanskrit द्वार् (dvār), Latin foris, Old Armenian դուռն (duṙn) and Old English duru and dor (English door) and Russian дверь (dverʹ).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰý.raː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtʰy.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈθy.ra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈθy.ra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈθi.ra/
Noun
θῠ́ρᾱ • (thŭ́rā) f (genitive θῠ́ρᾱς); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ θῠ́ρᾱ hē thŭ́rā |
τὼ θῠ́ρᾱ tṑ thŭ́rā |
αἱ θῠ́ραι hai thŭ́rai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς θῠ́ρᾱς tês thŭ́rās |
τοῖν θῠ́ραιν toîn thŭ́rain |
τῶν θῠρῶν tôn thŭrôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ θῠ́ρᾳ tēî thŭ́rāi |
τοῖν θῠ́ραιν toîn thŭ́rain |
ταῖς θῠ́ραις taîs thŭ́rais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν θῠ́ρᾱν tḕn thŭ́rān |
τὼ θῠ́ρᾱ tṑ thŭ́rā |
τᾱ̀ς θῠ́ρᾱς tā̀s thŭ́rās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | θῠ́ρᾱ thŭ́rā |
θῠ́ρᾱ thŭ́rā |
θῠ́ραι thŭ́rai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “θύρα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 565-6
Further reading
- “θύρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θύρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θύρα 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
- “θύρα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2374 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- θύρα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- θύρα, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek θύρα (thúra).[1] For senses USB, port, semantic loan from English Universal Serial Bus and port (sense computing).
Noun
θύρα • (thýra) f (plural θύρες)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | θύρα (thýra) | θύρες (thýres) |
| genitive | θύρας (thýras) | θυρών (thyrón) |
| accusative | θύρα (thýra) | θύρες (thýres) |
| vocative | θύρα (thýra) | θύρες (thýres) |
Derived terms
- θυροτηλέφωνο n (thyrotiléfono)
- (formal, archaic) κεκλεισμένων των θυρών (kekleisménon ton thyrón, “behind closed doors”)
See also
- πόρτα (pórta)
References
- ^ θύρα, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language