θυεία
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Maybe from θύος (thúos, “burnt offering, incense”), but the concept of "vase for pounding the incense" is rather strange. According to Beekes, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuH- (“to fly about, to dash”).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰy.ěː.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tʰyˈi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /θyˈi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /θyˈi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /θiˈi.a/
Noun edit
θῠείᾱ • (thueíā) f (genitive θῠείᾱς); first declension
Declension edit
Case / # | Singular | Plural | |||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ θῠείᾱ hē thueíā |
αἱ θῠεῖαι hai thueîai | |||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς θῠείᾱς tês thueíās |
τῶν θῠειῶν tôn thueiôn | |||||||||||
Dative | τῇ θῠείᾳ têi thueíāi |
ταῖς θῠείαις taîs thueíais | |||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν θῠείᾱν tḕn thueíān |
τᾱ̀ς θῠείᾱς tā̀s thueíās | |||||||||||
Vocative | θῠείᾱ thueíā |
θῠεῖαι thueîai | |||||||||||
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Synonyms edit
- ἴγδις (ígdis)
Derived terms edit
- θυείδιον (thueídion)
Further reading edit
- “θυεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- θυεία 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