θίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Due to the improbability of the other explanations, Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰǐːs/ → /θis/ → /θis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰǐːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θis/

Noun

θῑ́ς • (thī́s) m (genitive θῑνός); third declension

1. heap (especially of sand)
2. beach, shore
3. sandbank, bar at the mouth of the river
4. sand or mud at the bottom of the sea
5. shoreweed

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ θῑ́ς; τοῦ θῑνός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀποθινόομαι (apothinóomai)
• ἀκροθίνια (akrothínia)

Descendants

• Greek: θίνα (thína)

References

• “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