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 • (thúos) 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 thúos	τὼ θῠ́εε tṑ thúee	τᾰ̀ θῠ́εᾰ tà thúea
Genitive	τοῦ θῠ́εος toû thúeos	τοῖν θῠέοιν toîn thuéoin	τῶν θῠέων tôn thuéōn
Dative	τῷ θῠ́εῐ̈ tôi thúeï	τοῖν θῠέοιν toîn thuéoin	τοῖς θῠ́εσῐ / θῠ́εσῐν toîs thúesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ θῠ́ος tò thúos	τὼ θῠ́εε tṑ thúee	τᾰ̀ θῠ́εᾰ tà thúea
Vocative	θῠ́ος thúos	θῠ́εε thúee	θῠ́εᾰ thúea
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

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