Θησεύς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Related to words describing law and institutions, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put”). See θεσμός (thesmós, “institution”) and θέσις (thésis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰɛː.sěu̯s/ → /θiˈseɸs/ → /θiˈsefs/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰɛː.sěu̯s/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰe̝ˈsews/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θiˈseɸs/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θiˈsefs/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θiˈsefs/

Proper noun

Θησεύς • (Thēseús) m (genitive Θησέως); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) Theseus

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Θησεύς; τοῦ Θησέως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Θησεύς ho Thēseús
Genitive	τοῦ Θησέως toû Thēséōs
Dative	τῷ Θησεῖ tôi Thēseî
Accusative	τὸν Θησέᾱ tòn Thēséā
Vocative	Θησεῦ Thēseû
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Θησεῖα (Thēseîa)
• Θησείδης (Thēseídēs)
• Θησεῖον (Thēseîon)
• Θησῇς (Thēsêis)

 

Descendants

• Arabic: ثِيسِيُوس (ṯīsiyūs)
• Breton: Theseüs
• Bulgarian: Тезей (Tezej)
• Catalan: Teseu
• Czech: Théseus
• Danish: Theseus
• Dutch: Theseus
• Estonian: Theseus
• Finnish: Theseus
• French: Thésée
• Galician: Teseo
• German: Theseus
• Greek: Θησεύς (Thiséfs), Θησέας (Thiséas)
• Hebrew: תזאוס
• Hungarian: Thészeusz
• Icelandic: Þeseifur
• Italian: Teseo
• Japanese: テセウス (Teseusu)
• Latin: Theseus
• Lithuanian: Tesėjas
• Luxembourgish: Theseus
• Norwegian: Thesevs
• Polish: Tezeusz
• Portuguese: Teseu
• Romanian: Tezeu
• Russian: Тесе́й (Teséj)
• Serbo-Croatian: Тезеј, Tezej
• Slovene: Tezej
• Spanish: Teseo
• Swedish: Theseus
• Turkish: Theseus
• Ukrainian: Тесей (Tesej)
• Urdu: تھیسیس (theses)

References

• “Θησεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Θησεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Θησεύς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• “Θησεύς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,027