θάμβος

See also: θαμβός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Often connected to such forms as θαῦμα (thaûma, “wonder, marvel”), θώψ (thṓps, “flatterer, false friend”), τάφος (táphos, “amazement”) and τέθηπα (téthēpa, “to be astonished”), and referred to Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₂-. Beekes claims all are borrowed from non-Indo-European Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰám.bos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰam.bos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈθam.bos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈθam.bos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈθam.bos/

Noun

θᾰ́μβος • (thámbos) n (genitive θᾰ́μβεος or θᾰ́μβους); third declension

amazement, astonishment
awe of the divine

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ θᾰ́μβος; τοῦ θᾰ́μβους (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ θᾰ́μβος tò thámbos	τὼ θᾰ́μβει tṑ thámbei	τᾰ̀ θᾰ́μβη tà thámbē
Genitive	τοῦ θᾰ́μβους toû thámbous	τοῖν θᾰμβοῖν toîn thamboîn	τῶν θᾰμβῶν tôn thambôn
Dative	τῷ θᾰ́μβει tôi thámbei	τοῖν θᾰμβοῖν toîn thamboîn	τοῖς θᾰ́μβεσῐ / θᾰ́μβεσῐν toîs thámbesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ θᾰ́μβος tò thámbos	τὼ θᾰ́μβει tṑ thámbei	τᾰ̀ θᾰ́μβη tà thámbē
Vocative	θᾰ́μβος thámbos	θᾰ́μβει thámbei	θᾰ́μβη thámbē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ἀθαμβής (athambḗs)
ἀθαμβία (athambía)
ἄθαμβος (áthambos)
ἕκθαμβος (hékthambos)
θαμβαίνω (thambaínō)
θαμβαλέος (thambaléos)
θαμβευτής (thambeutḗs)
θαμβεύω (thambeúō)
θαμβέω (thambéō)
θάμβημα (thámbēma)
θάμβησις (thámbēsis)
θαμβήτειρα (thambḗteira)
θαμβητός (thambētós)
θαμβόομαι (thambóomai)
θαμβός (thambós)

Descendants

Byzantine Greek: θαμβός (thambós)
- Greek: θαμπός (thampós)

References

“θάμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“θάμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“θάμβος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
θάμβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
θάμβος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“θάμβος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G2285 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- amazement idem, page 26.
- astonishment idem, page 48.
- marvel idem, page 515.
- stupefaction idem, page 829.
- stupor idem, page 830.
- surprise idem, page 844.
- wonder idem, page 987.
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