τηΰσιος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• τᾱΰσῐος (tāǘsios) — Doric

Etymology

An isolated poetic adjective. If it originally meant "deceptive", from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teh₂y- (“to steal”), cognate with Sanskrit तायु (tāyu, “thief”), Avestan 𐬙𐬁𐬫𐬎 (tāyu, “thief”), Hittite [script needed] (tāyezzi), [script needed] (tāyazzi, “to steal”), Proto-Slavic *tajiti (“to hide, conceal”), etc. The suffix -σῐος may have been added directly to an unattested noun *τᾱΰς (*tāǘs) after the pattern of δημόσιος (dēmósios) from δῆμος (dêmos). Compare also τητάομαι (tētáomai, “to lack, be in want, be robbed”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tɛː.ý.si.os/ → /tiˈy.si.os/ → /tiˈi.si.os/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tɛː.ý.si.os/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /te̝ˈy.si.os/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /tiˈy.si.os/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tiˈy.si.os/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tiˈi.si.os/

Adjective

τηΰσῐος • (tēǘsios) m (feminine τηϋσῐ́ᾱ, neuter τηΰσῐον); first/second declension

1. (poetic) idle, vain, undertaken to no purpose

Declension

First and second declension of τηΰσῐος; τηϋσῐ́ᾱ; τηΰσῐον (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		τηΰσῐος tēǘsios	τηϋσῐ́ᾱ tēüsíā	τηΰσῐον tēǘsion		τηϋσῐ́ω tēüsíō	τηϋσῐ́ᾱ tēüsíā	τηϋσῐ́ω tēüsíō		τηΰσῐοι tēǘsioi	τηΰσῐαι tēǘsiai	τηΰσῐᾰ tēǘsia
Genitive		τηϋσῐ́ου tēüsíou	τηϋσῐ́ᾱς tēüsíās	τηϋσῐ́ου tēüsíou		τηϋσῐ́οιν tēüsíoin	τηϋσῐ́αιν tēüsíain	τηϋσῐ́οιν tēüsíoin		τηϋσῐ́ων tēüsíōn	τηϋσῐ́ων tēüsíōn	τηϋσῐ́ων tēüsíōn
Dative		τηϋσῐ́ῳ tēüsíōi	τηϋσῐ́ᾳ tēüsíāi	τηϋσῐ́ῳ tēüsíōi		τηϋσῐ́οιν tēüsíoin	τηϋσῐ́αιν tēüsíain	τηϋσῐ́οιν tēüsíoin		τηϋσῐ́οις tēüsíois	τηϋσῐ́αις tēüsíais	τηϋσῐ́οις tēüsíois
Accusative		τηΰσῐον tēǘsion	τηϋσῐ́ᾱν tēüsíān	τηΰσῐον tēǘsion		τηϋσῐ́ω tēüsíō	τηϋσῐ́ᾱ tēüsíā	τηϋσῐ́ω tēüsíō		τηϋσῐ́ους tēüsíous	τηϋσῐ́ᾱς tēüsíās	τηΰσῐᾰ tēǘsia
Vocative		τηΰσῐε tēǘsie	τηϋσῐ́ᾱ tēüsíā	τηΰσῐον tēǘsion		τηϋσῐ́ω tēüsíō	τηϋσῐ́ᾱ tēüsíā	τηϋσῐ́ω tēüsíō		τηΰσῐοι tēǘsioi	τηΰσῐαι tēǘsiai	τηΰσῐᾰ tēǘsia
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		τηϋσῐ́ως tēüsíōs				τηϋσῐώτερος tēüsiṓteros				τηϋσῐώτᾰτος tēüsiṓtatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “τηΰσιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τηΰσιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “τηΰσιος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• τηΰσιος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• τηΰσιος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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