Τειρεσίας
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably from Ancient Greek τείρεα (teírea, “celestial sign”), a variant of τέρας (téras, “divine sign, omen, marvel, wonder”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /teː.re.sí.aːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ti.reˈsi.as/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ti.reˈsi.as/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ti.reˈsi.as/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ti.reˈsi.as/
Proper noun
Τειρεσῐ́ᾱς • (Teiresíās) m (genitive Τειρεσῐ́ου); first declension
- Tiresias
- 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 173
Inflection
First declension of ὁ Τειρεσῐ́ᾱς; τοῦ Τειρεσῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ Τειρεσῐ́ᾱς ho Teiresíās | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Τειρεσῐ́ου toû Teiresíou | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Τειρεσῐ́ᾳ tôi Teiresíāi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν Τειρεσῐ́ᾱν tòn Teiresíān | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Τειρεσῐ́ᾱ Teiresíā | ||||||||||||
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First declension of Τειρεσῐ́ᾱς; Τειρεσῐ́ᾱο (Epic)
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | Τειρεσῐ́ᾱς Teiresíās | ||||||||||||
Genitive | Τειρεσῐ́ᾱο / Τειρεσῐέ͜ω / Τειρεσῐ́ω Teiresíāo / Teiresié͜ō / Teiresíō | ||||||||||||
Dative | Τειρεσῐ́ᾳ Teiresíāi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | Τειρεσῐ́ᾱν Teiresíān | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Τειρεσῐ́ᾱ Teiresíā | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Bulgarian: Тирезий (Tirezij)
- → Catalan: Tirèsias
- → Czech: Teiresiás
- → Danish: Teiresias
- → Dutch: Tiresias
- → English: Tiresias, Teiresias
- → Finnish: Teiresias
- → French: Tirésias
- → German: Teiresias
- Greek: Τειρεσίας (Teiresías)
- → Hebrew: טירסיאס
- → Hungarian: Teiresziasz
- → Italian: Tiresia
- → Japanese: テイレシアス (Teireshiasu)
- → Latin: Tiresias
- → Polish: Tejrezjasz
- → Portuguese: Tirésias
- → Russian: Тиресий (Tiresij)
- → Spanish: Tiresias
- → Swedish: Teiresias
- → Ukrainian: Тіресій (Tiresij)
References
- “Τειρεσίας”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,028