Θησεύς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Related to words describing law and institutions, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put”).[1] See θεσμός (thesmós, “institution”) and θέσις (thésis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰɛː.sěu̯s/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tʰe̝ˈsews/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /θiˈseɸs/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /θiˈsefs/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /θiˈsefs/
Proper noun
Θησεύς • (Thēseús) m (genitive Θησέως); third declension
- (Greek mythology) Theseus
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ Θησεύς; τοῦ Θησέως (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Θησεύς ho Thēseús | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Θησέως toû Thēséōs | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Θησεῖ tôi Thēseî | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Θησέᾱ tòn Thēséā | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Θησεῦ Thēseû | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Θησεῖα (Thēseîa)
- Θησείδης (Thēseídēs)
- Θησεῖον (Thēseîon)
- Θησῇς (Thēsêis)
Descendants
- → Arabic: ثِيسِيُوس (ṯīsiyūs)
- → Breton: Theseüs
- → Bulgarian: Тезей (Tezej)
- → Catalan: Teseu
- → Czech: Théseus
- → Coptic: ⲑⲏⲥⲉⲩⲥ (thēseus)
- → Danish: Theseus
- → Dutch: Theseus
- → Estonian: Theseus
- → Finnish: Theseus
- → French: Thésée
- → Galician: Teseo
- → German: Theseus
- Greek: Θησεύς (Thiséfs), Θησέας (Thiséas)
- → Hebrew: תזאוס
- → Hungarian: Thészeusz
- → Icelandic: Þeseifur
- → Italian: Teseo
- → Japanese: テセウス (Teseusu)
- → Latin: Theseus
- → Lithuanian: Tesėjas
- → Luxembourgish: Theseus
- → Norwegian: Thesevs
- → Polish: Tezeusz
- → Portuguese: Teseu
- → Romanian: Tezeu
- → Russian: Тесе́й (Teséj)
- → Serbo-Croatian: Тезеј, Tezej
- → Sicilian: Tiseu
- → Slovene: Tezej
- → Spanish: Teseo
- → Swedish: Theseus
- → Turkish: Theseus
- → Ukrainian: Тесей (Tesej)
- → Urdu: تھیسیس
References
- “Θησεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Θησεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Θησεύς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- “Θησεύς”, 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, page 1,027
- The Classical Journal, Volume 42, p. 34