Τίρυνς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tǐː.ryns/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈti.ryns/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈti.ryns/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈti.ryns/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈti.rins/
Proper noun
Τῑ́ρῠνς • (Tī́runs) m (genitive Τῑ́ρῠνθος); third declension
Usage notes
- Τίρυνς (Tíruns) is one of very few names of native Ancient Greek origin that contains the ΝΣ digraph. Furthermore, the nominative case has a long acute-accented penultimate vowel and an apparently short final vowel (ΤῙΡῨΝΣ). However, as this situation can normally only yield a circumflex accent in Classical Attic, the fact that an acute accent remains shows that the final vowel is scanned as long. ΝΣ and ΝΖ are not normally viable in Classical Attic and are normally respelt in inflection as just Σ or Ζ while compensatorily lengthening preceding Ᾰ Ε Ῐ Ο Ῠ to Ᾱ ΕΙ Ῑ ΟΥ Ῡ. Therefore, evidence and established grammar suggest that although Classical Attic retained the spelling as Τίρυνς instead of respelling it Τίρῡς (Tírūs), the standard Classical Attic pronunciation of Τίρυνς was to treat it as Τίρῡς.
Declension
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ Τῑ́ρῠνς hē Tī́runs | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς Τῑ́ρῠνθος tês Tī́runthos | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῇ Τῑ́ρῠνθῐ têi Tī́runthi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν Τῑ́ρῠνθᾰ tḕn Tī́runtha | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Τῑ́ρῠνς Tī́runs | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Τῑρῠ́νθῐος (Tīrúnthios)
Descendants
- Breton: Tiryns
- Catalan: Tirint
- Dutch: Tiryns
- English: Tiryns
- Finnish: Tiryns
- French: Tirynthe
- German: Tiryns
- Greek: Τίρυνς (Tíryns), Τίρυνθα (Tíryntha)
- Hungarian: Tirünsz
- Italian: Tirinto
- Latin: Tiryns
- Norwegian: Tiryns
- Polish: Tiryns
- Portuguese: Tirinto
- Russian: Тиринф (Tirinf)
- Slovak: Tiryns
- Spanish: Tirinto
- Swedish: Tiryns
References
- “Τίρυνς”, 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 1,028
- Τίρυνς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Further reading
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- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek proper nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension proper nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns in the third declension
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
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