θής

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τῐ́θημῐ (títhēmi, “I place”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰɛ̌ːs/ → /θis/ → /θis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰɛ̌ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰe̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θis/

Noun

θής • (thḗs) m (genitive θητός); third declension

1. serf
2. bondsman
3. (later) hired laborer

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ θής; τοῦ θητός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ θής ho thḗs	τὼ θῆτε tṑ thête	οἱ θῆτες hoi thêtes
Genitive	τοῦ θητός toû thētós	τοῖν θητοῖν toîn thētoîn	τῶν θητῶν tôn thētôn
Dative	τῷ θητῐ́ tôi thētí	τοῖν θητοῖν toîn thētoîn	τοῖς θησῐ́ / θησῐ́ν toîs thēsí(n)
Accusative	τὸν θῆτᾰ tòn thêta	τὼ θῆτε tṑ thête	τοὺς θῆτᾰς toùs thêtas
Vocative	θής thḗs	θῆτε thête	θῆτες thêtes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ts.

Derived terms

• θῆσσα (thêssa)
• θῆττα (thêtta)
• θητεύω (thēteúō)

References

• “θής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “θής”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• θής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• θής in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• θής 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.
  • bondman idem, page 89.
  • hired servant idem, page 401.
  • labourer idem, page 473.
  • serf idem, page 754.
  • villein idem, page 952.