θρόμβος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Compared with Icelandic drambr (“knag, knot”), however a direct connection is impossible. The same holds with Lithuanian dramblys (“elephant”) and Latvian dramblis (“glutton”).Can also be compared with Albanian grumbull (“heap, pile”).Within Greek, the word is generally compared with τρέφω (tréphō, “to curdle”): since this verb does not have a convincing Indo-European etymology, the present word would be of Pre-Greek origin too.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰróm.bos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtʰrom.bos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈθrom.bos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈθrom.bos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈθrom.bos/
Noun
θρόμβος • (thrómbos) m (genitive θρόμβου); second declension
- piece, lump, clump
- clot, gout of blood
- curd of milk
- coarse salt
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ θρόμβος; τοῦ θρόμβου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ θρόμβος ho thrómbos | τὼ θρόμβω tṑ thrómbō | οἱ θρόμβοι hoi thrómboi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ θρόμβου toû thrómbou | τοῖν θρόμβοιν toîn thrómboin | τῶν θρόμβων tôn thrómbōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ θρόμβῳ tôi thrómbōi | τοῖν θρόμβοιν toîn thrómboin | τοῖς θρόμβοις toîs thrómbois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν θρόμβον tòn thrómbon | τὼ θρόμβω tṑ thrómbō | τοὺς θρόμβους toùs thrómbous | ||||||||||
Vocative | θρόμβε thrómbe | θρόμβω thrómbō | θρόμβοι thrómboi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- θρομβεῖον (thrombeîon)
- θρομβοειδής (thromboeidḗs)
- θρομβόομαι (thrombóomai)
- θρομβώδης (thrombṓdēs)
- θρόμβωσῐς (thrómbōsis)
Descendants
- Greek: θρόμβος (thrómvos)
- → New Latin: thrombus
Further reading
- “θρόμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θρόμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θρόμβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G2361 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- cake idem, page 108.
- clot idem, page 139.
- gout idem, page 367.
- lump idem, page 504.
- 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
Greek
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek θρόμβος (thrómbos).
Noun
θρόμβος • (thrómvos) m (plural θρόμβοι)
- blood clot, thrombus
Declension
declension of θρόμβος
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | θρόμβος • | θρόμβοι • |
genitive | θρόμβου • | θρόμβων • |
accusative | θρόμβο • | θρόμβους • |
vocative | θρόμβε • | θρόμβοι • |
Related terms
- θρόμβωση f (thrómvosi, “thrombosis”)