θίς
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editDue to the improbability of the other explanations, Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰǐːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tʰis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /θis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /θis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /θis/
Noun
editθῑ́ς • (thī́s) m (genitive θῑνός); third declension
- heap (especially of sand)
- beach, shore
- sandbank, bar at the mouth of the river
- sand or mud at the bottom of the sea
- shoreweed
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ θῑ́ς ho thī́s |
τὼ θῖνε tṑ thîne |
οἱ θῖνες hoi thînes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ θῑνός toû thīnós |
τοῖν θῑνοῖν toîn thīnoîn |
τῶν θῑνῶν tôn thīnôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ θῑνῐ́ tôi thīní |
τοῖν θῑνοῖν toîn thīnoîn |
τοῖς θῑσῐ́ / θῑσῐ́ν toîs thīsí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν θῖνᾰ tòn thîna |
τὼ θῖνε tṑ thîne |
τοὺς θῖνᾰς toùs thînas | ||||||||||
Vocative | θῑ́ς thī́s |
θῖνε thîne |
θῖνες thînes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
edit- ἀποθινόομαι (apothinóomai)
- ἀκροθίνια (akrothínia)
Descendants
edit- Greek: θίνα (thína)
References
edit- “θίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θίς 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
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate
- Ancient Greek 1-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension