τιμωρός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- τῑμάορος (tīmáoros)
Etymology
The original meaning was "preserving or guarding τῑμή (tīmḗ)", from τῑμα-ϝορ-ος, a univerbation of τῑμή (tīmḗ, “price, value, honor”) + ὁράω (horáō, “to guard”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tiː.mɔː.rós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ti.moˈros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ti.moˈros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ti.moˈros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ti.moˈros/
Adjective
τῑμωρός • (tīmōrós) m or f (neuter τῑμωρόν); second declension
Declension
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
| Nominative | τῑμωρός tīmōrós |
τῑμωρόν tīmōrón |
τῑμωρώ tīmōrṓ |
τῑμωρώ tīmōrṓ |
τῑμωροί tīmōroí |
τῑμωρᾰ́ tīmōrắ | ||||||||
| Genitive | τῑμωροῦ tīmōroû |
τῑμωροῦ tīmōroû |
τῑμωροῖν tīmōroîn |
τῑμωροῖν tīmōroîn |
τῑμωρῶν tīmōrôn |
τῑμωρῶν tīmōrôn | ||||||||
| Dative | τῑμωρῷ tīmōrōî |
τῑμωρῷ tīmōrōî |
τῑμωροῖν tīmōroîn |
τῑμωροῖν tīmōroîn |
τῑμωροῖς tīmōroîs |
τῑμωροῖς tīmōroîs | ||||||||
| Accusative | τῑμωρόν tīmōrón |
τῑμωρόν tīmōrón |
τῑμωρώ tīmōrṓ |
τῑμωρώ tīmōrṓ |
τῑμωρούς tīmōroús |
τῑμωρᾰ́ tīmōrắ | ||||||||
| Vocative | τῑμωρέ tīmōré |
τῑμωρόν tīmōrón |
τῑμωρώ tīmōrṓ |
τῑμωρώ tīmōrṓ |
τῑμωροί tīmōroí |
τῑμωρᾰ́ tīmōrắ | ||||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| τῑμωρῶς tīmōrôs |
τῑμωρότερος tīmōróteros |
τῑμωρότᾰτος tīmōrótătos | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
Noun
τῑμωρός • (tīmōrós) m (genitive τῑμωροῦ); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ τῑμωρός ho tīmōrós |
τὼ τῑμωρώ tṑ tīmōrṓ |
οἱ τῑμωροί hoi tīmōroí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ τῑμωροῦ toû tīmōroû |
τοῖν τῑμωροῖν toîn tīmōroîn |
τῶν τῑμωρῶν tôn tīmōrôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ τῑμωρῷ tōî tīmōrōî |
τοῖν τῑμωροῖν toîn tīmōroîn |
τοῖς τῑμωροῖς toîs tīmōroîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν τῑμωρόν tòn tīmōrón |
τὼ τῑμωρώ tṑ tīmōrṓ |
τοὺς τῑμωρούς toùs tīmōroús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | τῑμωρέ tīmōré |
τῑμωρώ tīmōrṓ |
τῑμωροί tīmōroí | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “τιμωρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τιμωρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τιμωρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “τιμωρός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1485