θαιρός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
A technical term, which Brugmann derived from *θϝαριός (*thwariós), itself from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer-. Compare θύρα (thúra, “door”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰai̯.rós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tʰɛˈros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /θɛˈros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /θeˈros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /θeˈros/
Noun
θαιρός • (thairós) m (genitive θαιροῦ); second declension
- pivot of a door or gate
- axle of a chariot
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ θαιρός; τοῦ θαιροῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ θαιρός ho thairós | τὼ θαιρώ tṑ thairṓ | οἱ θαιροί hoi thairoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ θαιροῦ toû thairoû | τοῖν θαιροῖν toîn thairoîn | τῶν θαιρῶν tôn thairôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ θαιρῷ tôi thairôi | τοῖν θαιροῖν toîn thairoîn | τοῖς θαιροῖς toîs thairoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν θαιρόν tòn thairón | τὼ θαιρώ tṑ thairṓ | τοὺς θαιρούς toùs thairoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | θαιρέ thairé | θαιρώ thairṓ | θαιροί thairoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- θαιραῖος (thairaîos)
- θαιροδύτης (thairodútēs)
Descendants
- Arabic: تِرْس (tirs)
References
- θαιρός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- θαιρός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θαιρός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- θαιρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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