θύος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke”).

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Noun

θῠ́ος • (thŭ́os) n (genitive θῠ́εος); third declension

1. burnt sacrifice, offering
2. kind of cake

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ θῠ́ος; τοῦ θῠ́εος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ θῠ́ος tò thŭ́os	τὼ θῠ́εε tṑ thŭ́ee	τᾰ̀ θῠ́εᾰ tằ thŭ́eă
Genitive	τοῦ θῠ́εος toû thŭ́eos	τοῖν θῠέοιν toîn thŭéoin	τῶν θῠέων tôn thŭéōn
Dative	τῷ θῠ́εῐ̈ tôi thŭ́eĭ̈	τοῖν θῠέοιν toîn thŭéoin	τοῖς θῠ́εσῐ / θῠ́εσῐν toîs thŭ́esĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ θῠ́ος tò thŭ́os	τὼ θῠ́εε tṑ thŭ́ee	τᾰ̀ θῠ́εᾰ tằ thŭ́eă
Vocative	θῠ́ος thŭ́os	θῠ́εε thŭ́ee	θῠ́εᾰ thŭ́eă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• θυΐσκη (thuḯskē)
• θυΐτης (thuḯtēs)
• θυοδόκος (thuodókos)
• θυόεις (thuóeis)
• θυοσκέω (thuoskéō)
• θυοσκόος (thuoskóos)
• θυοσκοπία (thuoskopía)
• θυοσκόπος (thuoskópos)
• θυόω (thuóō)

Descendants

• → Latin: thūs, tūs
  • → Middle Irish: túis
    • Irish: túis
  • ⇒ Portuguese: turiferar

References

• “θύος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θύος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θύος 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