θύρα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- θῠ́ρη (thúrē) – Ionic
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *tʰurā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer-.
Cognates include Sanskrit द्वार् (dvār), Latin foris, Old Armenian դուռն (duṙn) and Old English duru and dor (English door).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰý.raː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtʰy.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈθy.ra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈθy.ra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈθi.ra/
Noun
θῠ́ρᾱ • (thúrā) f (genitive θῠ́ρᾱς); first declension
- door
- entrance
Inflection
First declension of ἡ θῠ́ρᾱ; τῆς θῠ́ρᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ θῠ́ρᾱ hē thúrā | τὼ θῠ́ρᾱ tṑ thúrā | αἱ θῠ́ραι hai thúrai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς θῠ́ρᾱς tês thúrās | τοῖν θῠ́ραιν toîn thúrain | τῶν θῠρῶν tôn thurôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ θῠ́ρᾳ têi thúrāi | τοῖν θῠ́ραιν toîn thúrain | ταῖς θῠ́ραις taîs thúrais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν θῠ́ρᾱν tḕn thúrān | τὼ θῠ́ρᾱ tṑ thúrā | τᾱ̀ς θῠ́ρᾱς tā̀s thúrās | ||||||||||
Vocative | θῠ́ρᾱ thúrā | θῠ́ρᾱ thúrā | θῠ́ραι thúrai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- θῠ́ρᾱθεν (thúrāthen)
- θῠρεός (thureós)
- θῠ́ρετρᾰ (thúretra)
- θυρίς (thurís)
- θυρωρός (thurōrós)
- πᾰρᾰκλαυσῐ́θῠρον (paraklausíthuron)
Descendants
- Cappadocian Greek: θίρ (thír), τίρ (tír)
- Greek: θύρα (thýra)
Further reading
- “θύρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θύρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θύρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- “θύρα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2374 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- θύρα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- door idem, page 247.
- gate idem, page 354.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek θύρα (thúra).[1] For senses USB, port, semantic loan from English Universal Serial Bus and port (sense computing).
Noun
θύρα • (thýra) f (plural θύρες)
- door
- Synonym: πόρτα (pórta)
- a gate in a stadium
- a PC port
- θύρα USB (USB port)
Declension
declension of θύρα
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | θύρα • | θύρες • |
genitive | θύρας • | θυρών • |
accusative | θύρα • | θύρες • |
vocative | θύρα • | θύρες • |
Derived terms
- κεκλεισμένων των θυρών (kekleisménon ton thyrón, “behind closed doors”) (formal, archaic)
See also
- πόρτα (pórta)
References
- θύρα - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.