θρίψ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Beekes suggests Pre-Greek.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰrǐːps/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tʰrips/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /θrips/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /θrips/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /θrips/
Noun
θρῑ́ψ • (thrī́ps) m (genitive θρῑπός); ? declension
- woodworm
- (figuratively) skinflint, miser
Declension
Third declension of ὁ θρῑ́ψ; τοῦ θρῑπός (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ θρῑ́ψ ho thrī́ps | τὼ θρῖπε tṑ thrîpe | οἱ θρῖπες hoi thrîpes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ θρῑπός toû thrīpós | τοῖν θρῑποῖν toîn thrīpoîn | τῶν θρῑπῶν tôn thrīpôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ θρῑπῐ́ tôi thrīpí | τοῖν θρῑποῖν toîn thrīpoîn | τοῖς θρῑψῐ́ / θρῑψῐ́ν toîs thrīpsí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν θρῖπᾰ tòn thrîpa | τὼ θρῖπε tṑ thrîpe | τοὺς θρῖπᾰς toùs thrîpas | ||||||||||
Vocative | θρῑ́ψ thrī́ps | θρῖπε thrîpe | θρῖπες thrîpes | ||||||||||
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References
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “θρίψ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 557
Further reading
- θρίψ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- θρίψ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θρίψ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette