θύμαλλος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The word has been connected with θύμον (thúmon, “thyme”), because of its scent. However, as the suffix -αλλος is Pre-Greek, it is improbable that the basic word was of inner-Greek formation.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰý.mal.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtʰy.mal.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈθy.mal.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈθy.mal.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈθi.ma.los/
Noun
θῠ́μᾰλλος • (thúmallos) m (genitive θῠμᾰ́λλου); second declension
- unknown kind of fish, perhaps the grayling
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ θῠ́μᾰλλος; τοῦ θῠμᾰ́λλου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ θῠ́μᾰλλος ho thúmallos | τὼ θῠμᾰ́λλω tṑ thumállō | οἱ θῠ́μᾰλλοι hoi thúmalloi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ θῠμᾰ́λλου toû thumállou | τοῖν θῠμᾰ́λλοιν toîn thumálloin | τῶν θῠμᾰ́λλων tôn thumállōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ θῠμᾰ́λλῳ tôi thumállōi | τοῖν θῠμᾰ́λλοιν toîn thumálloin | τοῖς θῠμᾰ́λλοις toîs thumállois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν θῠ́μᾰλλον tòn thúmallon | τὼ θῠμᾰ́λλω tṑ thumállō | τοὺς θῠμᾰ́λλους toùs thumállous | ||||||||||
Vocative | θῠ́μᾰλλε thúmalle | θῠμᾰ́λλω thumállō | θῠ́μᾰλλοι thúmalloi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Italian: temolo
- → Translingual: Thymallus
Further reading
- θύμαλλος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- θύμαλλος 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