θημών

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁mō, collective of *dʰéh₁mn̥. Related to τίθημι (títhēmi, “to put, to place”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰɛː.mɔ̌ːn/ → /θiˈmon/ → /θiˈmon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰɛː.mɔ̌ːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰe̝ˈmon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θiˈmon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θiˈmon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θiˈmon/

Noun

θημών • (thēmṓn) m (genitive θημῶνος); third declension

1. heap

   Synonyms: θωμός (thōmós), κόρθυς (kórthus), σωρός (sōrós)

Declension

Third declension of ὁ θημών; τοῦ θημῶνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ θημών ho thēmṓn	τὼ θημῶνε tṑ thēmône	οἱ θημῶνες hoi thēmônes
Genitive	τοῦ θημῶνος toû thēmônos	τοῖν θημώνοιν toîn thēmṓnoin	τῶν θημώνων tôn thēmṓnōn
Dative	τῷ θημῶνῐ tôi thēmôni	τοῖν θημώνοιν toîn thēmṓnoin	τοῖς θημῶσῐ / θημῶσῐν toîs thēmôsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν θημῶνᾰ tòn thēmôna	τὼ θημῶνε tṑ thēmône	τοὺς θημῶνᾰς toùs thēmônas
Vocative	θημών thēmṓn	θημῶνε thēmône	θημῶνες thēmônes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• θημωνιά (thēmōniá)
• θημωνοθετέω (thēmōnothetéō)

 

Further reading

• “θημών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• θημών 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