Θῆβαι

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Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

• (5th BC Attic): IPA: /tʰɛ́͜ɛbă͜ɪ̆/

• (1st BC Egyptian): IPA: /tʰéːbɛ/

• (4th AD Koine): IPA: /θíβe/

• (10th AD Byzantine): IPA: /θíve/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan): IPA: /θíve/

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
   • 7th, 8th century BC, Homer, Iliad, 6.222-223

     Τυδέα δ᾽ οὐ μέμνημαι, ἐπεί μ᾽ ἔτι τυτθὸν ἐόντα / κάλλιφ᾽, ὅτ᾽ ἐν Θήβῃσιν ἀπώλετο λαὸς Ἀχαιῶν.

     • 1990 translation by Robert Fagles

       My father, Tydeus, I really don't remember. I was just a baby when father left me then, that time an Achaean army went to die at Thebes.

Inflection

    Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ἡ Θήβη	αἱ Θῆβαι
Genitive	τῆς Θήβης	τῶν Θηβῶν
Dative	τῇ Θήβῃ	ταῖς Θήβαις
Accusative	τὴν Θήβην	τὰς 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