θορός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- θορή (thorḗ)
Etymology
According to Beekes, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”), the same root of θρῴσκω (thrṓiskō, “to spring, to leap”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰo.rós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tʰoˈros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /θoˈros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /θoˈros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /θoˈros/
Noun
θορός • (thorós) m (genitive θοροῦ); second declension
- semen, sperm
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ θορός; τοῦ θοροῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ θορός ho thorós | τὼ θορώ tṑ thorṓ | οἱ θοροί hoi thoroí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ θοροῦ toû thoroû | τοῖν θοροῖν toîn thoroîn | τῶν θορῶν tôn thorôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ θορῷ tôi thorôi | τοῖν θοροῖν toîn thoroîn | τοῖς θοροῖς toîs thoroîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν θορόν tòn thorón | τὼ θορώ tṑ thorṓ | τοὺς θορούς toùs thoroús | ||||||||||
Vocative | θορέ thoré | θορώ thorṓ | θοροί thoroí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- θοραῖος (thoraîos)
- θορικός (thorikós)
- θορίσκομαι (thorískomai)
- θορόεις (thoróeis)
- θορώδης (thorṓdēs)
References
- θορός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- θορός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θορός 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 9789004174207