Θησεύς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Related to words describing law and institutions, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put”). See θεσμός (thesmós, “institution”) and θέσις (thésis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰɛː.sěu̯s/ → /θiˈseɸs/ → /θiˈsefs/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰɛː.sěu̯s/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰe̝ˈsews/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θiˈseɸs/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θiˈsefs/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θiˈsefs/

Proper noun

Θησεύς • (Thēseús) m (genitive Θησέως); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) Theseus

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Θησεύς; τοῦ Θησέως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Θησεύς ho Thēseús
Genitive	τοῦ Θησέως toû Thēséōs
Dative	τῷ Θησεῖ tôi Thēseî
Accusative	τὸν Θησέᾱ tòn Thēséā
Vocative	Θησεῦ Thēseû
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Θησεῖα (Thēseîa)
• Θησείδης (Thēseídēs)
• Θησεῖον (Thēseîon)
• Θησῇς (Thēsêis)

 

Descendants

• → Arabic: ثِيسِيُوس (ṯīsiyūs)
• → Breton: Theseüs
• → Bulgarian: Тезей (Tezej)
• → Catalan: Teseu
• → Czech: Théseus
• → Coptic: ⲑⲏⲥⲉⲩⲥ (thēseus)
• → Danish: Theseus
• → Dutch: Theseus
• → Estonian: Theseus
• → Finnish: Theseus
• → French: Thésée
• → Galician: Teseo
• → German: Theseus
• Greek: Θησεύς (Thiséfs), Θησέας (Thiséas)
• → Hebrew: תזאוס
• → Hungarian: Thészeusz
• → Icelandic: Þeseifur
• → Italian: Teseo
• → Japanese: テセウス (Teseusu)
• → Latin: Thēseus
• → Lithuanian: Tesėjas
• → Luxembourgish: Theseus
• → Norwegian: Thesevs
• → Polish: Tezeusz
• → Portuguese: Teseu
• → Romanian: Tezeu
• → Russian: Тесе́й (Teséj)
• → Serbo-Croatian: Тезеј, Tezej
• → Sicilian: Tiseu
• → Slovene: Tezej
• → Spanish: Teseo
• → Swedish: Theseus
• → Turkish: Theseus
• → Ukrainian: Тесей (Tesej)
• → Urdu: تھیسیس (theses)

References

• “Θησεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Θησεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Θησεύς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• “Θησεύς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,027