τιμωρός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- τῑμάορος (tīmáoros)
Etymology
The original meaning was "preserving or guarding τῑμή (tīmḗ)", from τῑμα-ϝορ-ος, a univerbation of τῑμή (tīmḗ, “price, value, honor”) + ὁράω (horáō, “to guard”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tiː.mɔː.rós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ti.moˈros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ti.moˈros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ti.moˈros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ti.moˈros/
Adjective
τῑμωρός • (tīmōrós) m or f (neuter τῑμωρόν); second declension
- avenging, helping one to vengeance for a thing
- succouring, aiding, assisting
Declension
Second declension of τῑμωρός; τῑμωρόν (Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
Nominative | τῑμωρός tīmōrós | τῑμωρόν tīmōrón | τῑμωρώ tīmōrṓ | τῑμωρώ tīmōrṓ | τῑμωροί tīmōroí | τῑμωρᾰ́ tīmōrá | ||||||||
Genitive | τῑμωροῦ tīmōroû | τῑμωροῦ tīmōroû | τῑμωροῖν tīmōroîn | τῑμωροῖν tīmōroîn | τῑμωρῶν tīmōrôn | τῑμωρῶν tīmōrôn | ||||||||
Dative | τῑμωρῷ tīmōrôi | τῑμωρῷ tīmōrôi | τῑμωροῖν tīmōroîn | τῑμωροῖν tīmōroîn | τῑμωροῖς tīmōroîs | τῑμωροῖς tīmōroîs | ||||||||
Accusative | τῑμωρόν tīmōrón | τῑμωρόν tīmōrón | τῑμωρώ tīmōrṓ | τῑμωρώ tīmōrṓ | τῑμωρούς tīmōroús | τῑμωρᾰ́ tīmōrá | ||||||||
Vocative | τῑμωρέ tīmōré | τῑμωρόν tīmōrón | τῑμωρώ tīmōrṓ | τῑμωρώ tīmōrṓ | τῑμωροί tīmōroí | τῑμωρᾰ́ tīmōrá | ||||||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
τῑμωρῶς tīmōrôs | τῑμωρότερος tīmōróteros | τῑμωρότᾰτος tīmōrótatos | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- τῑμωρέω (tīmōréō)
- τῑμώρημᾰ (tīmṓrēma)
- τῑμώρησῐς (tīmṓrēsis)
- τῑμωρητήρ (tīmōrētḗr)
- τῑμωρητής (tīmōrētḗs)
- τῑμωρητῐκός (tīmōrētikós)
- τῑμωρῐ́ᾱ (tīmōríā)
- τῑμωρῐ́ζω (tīmōrízō)
Noun
τῑμωρός • (tīmōrós) m (genitive τῑμωροῦ); second declension
- avenger
- executioner
- succourer
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ τῑμωρός; τοῦ τῑμωροῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ τῑμωρός ho tīmōrós | τὼ τῑμωρώ tṑ tīmōrṓ | οἱ τῑμωροί hoi tīmōroí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ τῑμωροῦ toû tīmōroû | τοῖν τῑμωροῖν toîn tīmōroîn | τῶν τῑμωρῶν tôn tīmōrôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ τῑμωρῷ tôi tīmōrôi | τῑμωροῖν tīmōroîn | τοῖς τῑμωροῖς toîs tīmōroîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν τῑμωρόν tòn tīmōrón | τῑμωρώ tīmōrṓ | τοὺς τῑμωρούς toùs tīmōroús | ||||||||||
Vocative | τῑμωρέ tīmōré | τῑμωρώ tīmōrṓ | τῑμωροί tīmōroí | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- τιμωρός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τιμωρός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τιμωρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) , “τιμωρός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1485