θύμος

See also: θυμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust”). Compare θύμον (thúmon, “thyme”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰý.mos/ → /ˈθy.mos/ → /ˈθi.mos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰý.mos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰy.mos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈθy.mos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈθy.mos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈθi.mos/

Noun

θῠ́μος • (thúmos) m (genitive θῠ́μου); second declension

1. a warty excrescence, so called from its likeness to a bunch of thyme-flower
2. the thymus gland

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ θῠ́μος; τοῦ θῠ́μου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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