Τηθύς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Possibly connected with Ancient Greek τήθη (tḗthē, “grandmother”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck”), as she is referred to in Homer on two occasions as “mother of the gods”.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tɛː.tʰy̌ːs/ → /tiˈθys/ → /tiˈθis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tɛː.tʰy̌ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /te̝ˈtʰys/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /tiˈθys/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tiˈθys/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tiˈθis/

Proper noun

Τηθῡ́ς • (Tēthū́s) f (genitive Τηθῠ́ος); third declension

1. Tethys (a Titan)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Τηθῡ́ς; τῆς Τηθῠ́ος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Τηθῡ́ς hē Tēthū́s
Genitive	τῆς Τηθῠ́ος tês Tēthúos
Dative	τῇ Τηθῠ́ῐ̈ têi Tēthúï
Accusative	τὴν Τηθῡ́ν tḕn Tēthū́n
Vocative	Τηθῡ́ Tēthū́
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Τηθύς (Tithýs)
• Latin: Tēthys

References

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