Θῆβαι

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Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

• (Classical): IPA: [tʰɛ́ː̀ba͝ɪ]
• (Koine): IPA: [tʰˈeːbɛ]
• (Byzantine): IPA: [θˈiβe]

Proper noun

Θῆβαι (genitive Θηβῶν) f, first declension; (Thēbai)

1. Thebes, the name of a city in Boeotia and the name of another city in Egypt

Inflection

    Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ἡ Θήβη	αἱ Θῆβαι
Genitive	τῆς Θήβης	τῶν Θηβῶν
Dative	τῇ Θήβῃ	ταῖς Θήβαις
Accusative	τήν Θήβην	τάς Θήβᾱς
Vocative	Θήβη	Θῆβαι

The name of the Egyptian city is sometimes singular in verse.

Derived terms

• Θήβησι
• Θήβαζε
• Θηβαῖος
• Θηβαγενής
• Θηβαϊκός
• Θηβαΐς

Descendants

Arabic: طيبة Basque: Tebas Breton: in Greece: Thebai, in Egypt: Teba Bulgarian: Тива (Tiva) Catalan: Tebes Czech: Théby Danish: Theben Dutch: Thebe English: Thebes Estonian: Teeba Finnish: Theba French: Thèbes Galician: Tebas German: Theben Greek: in Greece: Θήβα (Thiva), in Egypt: Θήβες (Thives) Hebrew: תבאי Hungarian: in Greece: Thébai, in Egypt: Théba

Italian: Tebe Japanese: in Greece: テーバイ (Tēbai), in Egypt: テーベ (Tēbe) Korean: 테베 (RR: Tebe, MCR: T'ebe, Yale: Theypey) Latin: Thebae Lithuanian: Tėbai Norwegian: Theben Polish: Teby Portuguese: Tebas Romanian: Teba Russian: Фивы (Fivy) Serbo-Croatian: Теба, Teba Slovak: Téby Slovene: Tebe Spanish: Tebas Swedish: Thebe Turkish: Tebai Welsh: Thebai

References

• Woodhouse’s English-Greek Dictionary page 1027