θύρα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• θῠ́ρη (thúrē) – Ionic

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *tʰurā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer-.

Cognates include Sanskrit द्वार् (dvār), Latin foris, Old Armenian դուռն (duṙn) and Old English duru and dor (English door).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰý.raː/ → /ˈθy.ra/ → /ˈθi.ra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰý.raː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰy.ra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈθy.ra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈθy.ra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈθi.ra/

Noun

θῠ́ρᾱ • (thúrā) f (genitive θῠ́ρᾱς); first declension

1. door
2. entrance

Inflection

First declension of ἡ θῠ́ρᾱ; τῆς θῠ́ρᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ θῠ́ρᾱ hē thúrā	τὼ θῠ́ρᾱ tṑ thúrā	αἱ θῠ́ραι hai thúrai
Genitive	τῆς θῠ́ρᾱς tês thúrās	τοῖν θῠ́ραιν toîn thúrain	τῶν θῠρῶν tôn thurôn
Dative	τῇ θῠ́ρᾳ têi thúrāi	τοῖν θῠ́ραιν toîn thúrain	ταῖς θῠ́ραις taîs thúrais
Accusative	τὴν θῠ́ρᾱν tḕn thúrān	τὼ θῠ́ρᾱ tṑ thúrā	τᾱ̀ς θῠ́ρᾱς tā̀s thúrās
Vocative	θῠ́ρᾱ thúrā	θῠ́ρᾱ thúrā	θῠ́ραι thúrai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• θῠ́ρᾱθεν (thúrāthen)
• θῠρεός (thureós)
• θῠ́ρετρᾰ (thúretra)
• θυρίς (thurís)
• θυρωρός (thurōrós)
• πᾰρᾰκλαυσῐ́θῠρον (paraklausíthuron)

Descendants

• Cappadocian Greek: θίρ (thír), τίρ (tír)
• Greek: θύρα (thýra)

Further reading

• “θύρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θύρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θύρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “θύρα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2374 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• θύρα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • door idem, page 247.
  • gate idem, page 354.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θύρα (thúra). For senses USB, port, semantic loan from English Universal Serial Bus and port (sense computing).

Noun

θύρα • (thýra) f (plural θύρες)

1. door

   Synonym: πόρτα (pórta)

2. a gate in a stadium
3. a PC port

   θύρα USB (USB port)

Declension

declension of θύρα

case     \     number	singular	plural
nominative	θύρα •	θύρες •
genitive	θύρας •	θυρών •
accusative	θύρα •	θύρες •
vocative	θύρα •	θύρες •

Derived terms

• κεκλεισμένων των θυρών (kekleisménon ton thyrón, “behind closed doors”) (formal, archaic)

See also

• πόρτα (pórta)