Thucydides

• Th. (bibliographical abbreviation)

From Ancient Greek Θουκυδίδης (Thoukudídēs), from θεός (theós, “ruler, god”) +‎ κῦδος (kûdos, “glory”) +‎ -ῐ́δης (-ĭ́dēs, patronymic suffix).

• IPA^(key): /θjuːˈsɪdɪdiːz/

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Thucydides

1. A great ancient Greek historian (c. 460 BCE – c. 395 BCE) and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century BCE war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BCE.

• Thucydidean
• Thucydidesian
• Thucydides trap

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Θουκυδίδης (Thoukudídēs).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tʰuːˈkyː.dɪ.deːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t̪uˈt͡ʃiː.d̪i.d̪es]

Thūcȳdidēs m sg (genitive Thūcȳdidis); third declension

1. A celebrated Greek historian
2. An Athenian statesman

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• “Thūcȳdĭdes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Thūcȳdĭdēs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1572/3.
• “Thucyʹdides (Θουκυδίδης), historical. 1.”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, entry contributed by Edward Elder, London: John Murray
• “Thucyʹdides (Θουκυδίδης), historical. 2.”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, entry contributed by Edward Elder, London: John Murray
• “Thucyʹdides (Θουκυδίδης), historical. 3.”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, entry contributed by Edward Elder, London: John Murray
• “Thucyʹdides (Θουκυδίδης), the historian”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, entry contributed by George Long, London: John Murray

Thucydides m

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of Tucídides.