θρῆνος

See also: θρήνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Cognate to Sanskrit ध्रणति (dhráṇati, “to sound”), Latin drēnsō, and Old English drān (English drone). Compare also θρέομαι (thréomai, “I cry aloud, shriek”). Beekes argues for a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰrɛ̂ː.nos/ → /ˈθri.nos/ → /ˈθri.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰrɛ̂ː.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰre̝.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈθri.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈθri.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈθri.nos/

Noun

θρῆνος • (thrênos) m (genitive θρήνου); second declension

1. wailing, lamenting, dirge

   Synonym: ἰάλεμος (iálemos)

2. complaint

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ θρῆνος; τοῦ θρήνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ θρῆνος ho thrênos	τὼ θρήνω tṑ thrḗnō	οἱ θρῆνοι hoi thrênoi
Genitive	τοῦ θρήνου toû thrḗnou	τοῖν θρήνοιν toîn thrḗnoin	τῶν θρήνων tôn thrḗnōn
Dative	τῷ θρήνῳ tôi thrḗnōi	τοῖν θρήνοιν toîn thrḗnoin	τοῖς θρήνοις toîs thrḗnois
Accusative	τὸν θρῆνον tòn thrênon	τὼ θρήνω tṑ thrḗnō	τοὺς θρήνους toùs thrḗnous
Vocative	θρῆνε thrêne	θρήνω thrḗnō	θρῆνοι thrênoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Θρῆνοι Ἰερεμίου (Thrênoi Ieremíou)

Descendants

• Greek: θρήνος m (thrínos, “lamentation”)

References

• “θρῆνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θρῆνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “θρῆνος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• θρῆνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• θρῆνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “θρῆνος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2355 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• θρῆνος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • dirge idem, page 226.
  • elegy idem, page 265.
  • lamentation idem, page 474.
  • threnody idem, page 870.
  • wail idem, page 959.