θώς

Ancient Greek

According to Beekes it could be related to θῶσθαι (thôsthai, “to eat”) or alternatively from Pre-Greek.

θώς • (thṓs) m or f (genitive θωός); third declension

Third declension of ὁ θώς; τοῦ θωός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ θώς ho thṓs	τὼ θῶε tṑ thôe	οἱ θῶες hoi thôes
Genitive	τοῦ θωός toû thōós	τοῖν θώοιν toîn thṓoin	τῶν θώων tôn thṓōn
Dative	τῷ θῷ / θῶῐ̈ tōî thōî / thôĭ̈	τοῖν θώοιν toîn thṓoin	τοῖς θωσῐ́ / θωσῐ́ν toîs thōsĭ́(n)
Accusative	τὸν θῶ / θῶᾰ tòn thô / thôă	τὼ θῶε tṑ thôe	τοὺς θῶᾰς toùs thôăs
Vocative	θώς thṓs	θῶε thôe	θῶες thôes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Latin: thōs
⇒ Byzantine Greek:
- Pontic Greek: θώπεκας (thópekas)
- → Old Armenian: թեպեկ (tʻepek)

“θώς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“θώς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
θώς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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