Τύρος

See also: τυρός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Phoenician 𐤑𐤓 (ṣr) or 𐤑𐤅𐤓 (ṣwr), cognate with Biblical Hebrew צוֹר‎ (ṣôr) and Aramaic טור.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tý.ros/ → /ˈty.ros/ → /ˈti.ros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tý.ros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈty.ros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈty.ros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈty.ros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ros/

Proper noun

Τῠ́ρος • (Túros) f (genitive Τῠ́ρου); second declension

1. Tyre, a Phoenician city.

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ Τῠ́ρος; τῆς Τῠ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Τῠ́ρος hē Túros
Genitive	τῆς Τῠ́ρου tês Túrou
Dative	τῇ Τῠ́ρῳ têi Túrōi
Accusative	τὴν Τῠ́ρον tḕn Túron
Vocative	Τῠ́ρε Túre
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• τύρινος (túrinos)
• Τῠ́ρῐος (Túrios)

 

Descendants

• English: Tyre
• Greek: Τύρος (Týros)
• Latin: Tyrus

References

• “Τύρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• 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
• G5184 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,029