θύμον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From θύω (thúō, “to smoke”). Beekes suggests that this is "doubtful" and that "[a]s a local plant name, the word is liable to be of Pre-Greek origin". [1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰý.mon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtʰy.mon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈθy.mon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈθy.mon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈθi.mon/
Noun
θύμον • (thúmon) n (genitive θύμου); second declension
- thyme (plant of the genus Thymus)
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ θῠ́μον; τοῦ θῠ́μου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ θῠ́μον tò thúmon | τὼ θῠ́μω tṑ thúmō | τᾰ̀ θῠ́μᾰ tà thúma | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ θῠ́μου toû thúmou | τοῖν θῠ́μοιν toîn thúmoin | τῶν θῠ́μων tôn thúmōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ θῠ́μῳ tôi thúmōi | τοῖν θῠ́μοιν toîn thúmoin | τοῖς θῠ́μοις toîs thúmois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ θῠ́μον tò thúmon | τὼ θῠ́μω tṑ thúmō | τᾰ̀ θῠ́μᾰ tà thúma | ||||||||||
Vocative | θῠ́μον thúmon | θῠ́μω thúmō | θῠ́μᾰ thúma | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἐπίθυμον (epíthumon)
- θυμελαία (thumelaía)
- θυμίζω (thumízō)
- θύμινον (thúminon)
- θύμιον (thúmion)
- θυμίτης (thumítēs)
- θυμόεις (thumóeis)
- θυμοξάλμη (thumoxálmē)
- θυμώδης (thumṓdēs)
Descendants
- → Latin: thymum
Further reading
- θύμον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- θύμον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θύμον 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
- https://www.etymonline.com/word/thyme#etymonline_v_13292.