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 • (thúmos) 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 thúmos |
τὼ θῠ́μω tṑ thúmō |
οἱ θῠ́μοι hoi thúmoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ θῠ́μου toû thúmou |
τοῖν θῠ́μοιν toîn thúmoin |
τῶν θῠ́μων tôn thúmōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ θῠ́μῳ tôi thúmōi |
τοῖν θῠ́μοιν toîn thúmoin |
τοῖς θῠ́μοις toîs thúmois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν θῠ́μον tòn thúmon |
τὼ θῠ́μω tṑ thúmō |
τοὺς θῠ́μους toùs thúmous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | θῠ́με thúme |
θῠ́μω thúmō |
θῠ́μοι thúmoi | ||||||||||
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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
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