θηρίον
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editFrom θήρ (thḗr, “animal, beast”) + -ῐον (-ion, diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰɛː.rí.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tʰe̝ˈri.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /θiˈri.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /θiˈri.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /θiˈri.on/
Noun
editθηρῐ́ον • (thēríon) n (genitive θηρῐ́ου); second declension
- wild animal, beast, savage beast
- animal
- a poisonous animal
- (diminutive) a small animal, insect, worm
- (medicine) a malignant ulcer
- a term of reproach
- (astronomy) the constellation Lupus
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ θηρῐ́ον tò thēríon |
τὼ θηρῐ́ω tṑ thēríō |
τᾰ̀ θηρῐ́ᾰ tà thēría | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ θηρῐ́ου toû thēríou |
τοῖν θηρῐ́οιν toîn thēríoin |
τῶν θηρῐ́ων tôn thēríōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ θηρῐ́ῳ tôi thēríōi |
τοῖν θηρῐ́οιν toîn thēríoin |
τοῖς θηρῐ́οις toîs thēríois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ θηρῐ́ον tò thēríon |
τὼ θηρῐ́ω tṑ thēríō |
τᾰ̀ θηρῐ́ᾰ tà thēría | ||||||||||
Vocative | θηρῐ́ον thēríon |
θηρῐ́ω thēríō |
θηρῐ́ᾰ thēría | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
editDerived terms
edit- θηριακός (thēriakós)
- θηρῐόδηγμα (thēriódēgma)
- θηρῐότης (thēriótēs)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “θηρίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θηρίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “θηρίον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- θηρίον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- θηρίον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G2342 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- “θηρίον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
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- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -ιον
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- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the second declension
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