θήρ
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- φήρ (phḗr) – Aeolic
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *kʷʰḗr, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwer-. Cognates include Latin ferus and Old Church Slavonic звѣрь (zvěrĭ).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰɛ̌ːr/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tʰe̝r/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /θir/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /θir/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /θir/
Noun
θήρ • (thḗr) m or f (genitive θηρός); third declension
- a wild beast, beast of prey, especially a lion
- any animal
- a fantastic animal, such as the Sphinx
Usage notes
- Originally masculine gender but later feminine.
Declension
Third declension of ὁ, ἡ θήρ; τοῦ, τῆς θηρός (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ, ἡ θήρ ho, hē thḗr | τὼ θῆρε tṑ thêre | οἱ, αἱ θῆρες hoi, hai thêres | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς θηρός toû, tês thērós | τοῖν θηροῖν toîn thēroîn | τῶν θηρῶν tôn thērôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ, τῇ θηρῐ́ tôi, têi thērí | τοῖν θηροῖν toîn thēroîn | τοῖς, ταῖς θηρσῐ́ / θηρσῐ́ν toîs, taîs thērsí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν, τὴν θῆρᾰ tòn, tḕn thêra | τὼ θῆρε tṑ thêre | τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς θῆρᾰς toùs, tā̀s thêras | ||||||||||
Vocative | θήρ thḗr | θῆρε thêre | θῆρες thêres | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- θηρίον (thēríon)
Descendants
- Aeolic Greek: φήρ (phḗr)
- →? Svan: თხე̄რე (txēre, “wolf”), თხა̈̄რე (txǟre), თხერე (txere)
References
- “θήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “θήρ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- θήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- θήρ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “θήρ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- animal idem, page 30.
- beast idem, page 67.
- brute idem, page 102.
- creature idem, page 183.
- monster idem, page 539.