θύμος
See also: θυμός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust”). Compare θύμον (thúmon, “thyme”)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰý.mos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtʰy.mos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈθy.mos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈθy.mos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈθi.mos/
Noun
θῠ́μος • (thúmos) m (genitive θῠ́μου); second declension
- a warty excrescence, so called from its likeness to a bunch of thyme-flower
- the thymus gland
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ θῠ́μος; τοῦ θῠ́μου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ θῠ́μος ho thúmos | τὼ θῠ́μω tṑ thúmō | οἱ θῠ́μοι hoi thúmoi | ||||||||||
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 | τὸν θῠ́μον tòn thúmon | τὼ θῠ́μω tṑ thúmō | τοὺς θῠ́μους toùs thúmous | ||||||||||
Vocative | θῠ́με thúme | θῠ́μω thúmō | θῠ́μοι thúmoi | ||||||||||
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References
- θύμος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- θύμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette