θώς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes it could be related to θῶσθαι (thôsthai, “to eat”) or alternatively from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰɔ̌ːs/ → /θos/ → /θos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰɔ̌ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θos/

Noun

θώς • (thṓs) m or f (genitive θωός); third declension

1. jackal

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ θώς; τοῦ θωός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ θώς ho thṓs	τὼ θῶε tṑ thôe	οἱ θῶες hoi thôes
Genitive	τοῦ θωός toû thōós	τοῖν θώοιν toîn thṓoin	τῶν θώων tôn thṓōn
Dative	τῷ θῷ / θῶῐ̈ tôi thôi / thôï	τοῖν θώοιν toîn thṓoin	τοῖς θωσῐ́ / θωσῐ́ν toîs thōsí(n)
Accusative	τὸν θῶ / θῶᾰ tòn thô / thôa	τὼ θῶε tṑ thôe	τοὺς θῶᾰς toùs thôas
Vocative	θώς thṓs	θῶε thôe	θῶες thôes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• λυκοπάνθηρ (lukopánthēr)

Descendants

• Latin: thōs
• ⇒ Byzantine Greek:
  • Pontic Greek: θώπεκας (thópekas)
  • → Old Armenian: թեպեկ (tʻepek)

References

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