θυία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably related to θύον (thúon, “cypress-pine”). The two words could derived from θύω (thúō, “to burn”) but this is not clear.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰy̌ː.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtʰy.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈθy.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈθy.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈθi.a/
Noun
θυία • (thuía) f (genitive θυίᾱς); first declension
- stinking juniper (Juniperus foetidissima)
Inflection
First declension of ἡ θῡ́ῑᾰ; τῆς θῡῑ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ θῡ́ῑᾰ hē thū́īa | τὼ θῡῑ́ᾱ tṑ thūī́ā | αἱ θῡ́ῑαι hai thū́īai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς θῡῑ́ᾱς tês thūī́ās | τοῖν θῡῑ́αιν toîn thūī́ain | τῶν θῡῑῶν tôn thūīôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ θῡῑ́ᾳ têi thūī́āi | τοῖν θῡῑ́αιν toîn thūī́ain | ταῖς θῡῑ́αις taîs thūī́ais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν θῡ́ῑᾰν tḕn thū́īan | τὼ θῡῑ́ᾱ tṑ thūī́ā | τᾱ̀ς θῡῑ́ᾱς tā̀s thūī́ās | ||||||||||
Vocative | θῡ́ῑᾰ thū́īa | θῡῑ́ᾱ thūī́ā | θῡ́ῑαι thū́īai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- θύϊνος (thúïnos)
- θυῖον (thuîon)
Descendants
- Translingual: Thuja
Further reading
- θυία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- θυία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette