θυρωρός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• θυραωρός (thuraōrós) — Epic

Etymology

From θύρα (thúra, “door”) + the root underlying οὖρος (oûros, “watcher, guardian”) and ἐρύω (erúō, “to protect, guard”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰy.rɔː.rós/ → /θy.roˈros/ → /θi.roˈros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰy.rɔː.rós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰy.roˈros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θy.roˈros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θy.roˈros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θi.roˈros/

Noun

θῠρωρός • (thurōrós) m or f (genitive θῠρωροῦ); second declension

1. doorkeeper, porter

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ, ἡ θῠρωρός; τοῦ, τῆς θῠρωροῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ θῠρωρός ho, hē thurōrós	τὼ θῠρωρώ tṑ thurōrṓ	οἱ, αἱ θῠρωροί hoi, hai thurōroí
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς θῠρωροῦ toû, tês thurōroû	τοῖν θῠρωροῖν toîn thurōroîn	τῶν θῠρωρῶν tôn thurōrôn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ θῠρωρῷ tôi, têi thurōrôi	τοῖν θῠρωροῖν toîn thurōroîn	τοῖς, ταῖς θῠρωροῖς toîs, taîs thurōroîs
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν θῠρωρόν tòn, tḕn thurōrón	τὼ θῠρωρώ tṑ thurōrṓ	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς θῠρωρούς toùs, tā̀s thurōroús
Vocative	θῠρωρέ thurōré	θῠρωρώ thurōrṓ	θῠρωροί thurōroí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• θυρωρεῖον (thurōreîon)
• θυρωρέω (thurōréō)

 

Descendants

• Greek: θυρωρός (thyrorós)

Further reading

• “θυρωρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θυρωρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θυρωρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • door-keeper idem, page 247.
  • gate-keeper idem, page 354.
  • guard idem, page 376.
  • janitor idem, page 461.
  • porter idem, page 627.
  • warder idem, page 964.
• “θυρωρός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011