θύον

See also: θῦον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

It has been suggested that it is a primary derivative of θύω (thúō, “to smoke”). It is clearly connected to θυία (thuía, “stinking juniper”); however, the relation of these forms is not clear. It does not seem very probable that two distinct trees had nearly identical names.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰý.on/ → /ˈθy.on/ → /ˈθi.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰý.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰy.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈθy.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈθy.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈθi.on/

Noun

θῠ́ον • (thúon) n (genitive θῠ́ου); second declension

1. sandarac (Tetraclinis articulata)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ θῠ́ον; τοῦ θῠ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ θῠ́ον tò thúon	τὼ θῠ́ω tṑ thúō	τᾰ̀ θῠ́ᾰ tà thúa
Genitive	τοῦ θῠ́ου toû thúou	τοῖν θῠ́οιν toîn thúoin	τῶν θῠ́ων tôn thúōn
Dative	τῷ θῠ́ῳ tôi thúōi	τοῖν θῠ́οιν toîn thúoin	τοῖς θῠ́οις toîs thúois
Accusative	τὸ θῠ́ον tò thúon	τὼ θῠ́ω tṑ thúō	τᾰ̀ θῠ́ᾰ tà thúa
Vocative	θῠ́ον thúon	θῠ́ω thúō	θῠ́ᾰ thúa
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• θυῖον (thuîon)

Further reading

• “θύον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• θύον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN