Θησεύς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Related to words describing law and institutions, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put”).[1] See θεσμός (thesmós, “institution”) and θέσις (thésis).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Θησεύς • (Thēseús) m (genitive Θησέως); third declension

  1. (Greek mythology) Theseus

Inflection
Third declension of ὁ Θησεύς; τοῦ Θησέως (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Θησεύς
ho Thēseús
Genitive τοῦ Θησέως
toû Thēséōs
Dative τῷ Θησεῖ
tôi Thēseî
Accusative τὸν Θησέᾱ
tòn Thēséā
Vocative Θησεῦ
Thēseû
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • Θησεῖα (Thēseîa)
  • Θησείδης (Thēseídēs)
  • Θησεῖον (Thēseîon)
  • Θησῇς (Thēsêis)

Descendants
  • Arabic: ثِيسِيُوس‎ (ṯīsiyūs)
  • Breton: Theseüs
  • Bulgarian: Тезей (Tezej)
  • Catalan: Teseu
  • Czech: Théseus
  • Danish: Theseus
  • Dutch: Theseus
  • Estonian: Theseus
  • Finnish: Theseus
  • French: Thésée
  • Galician: Teseo
  • German: Theseus
  • Greek: Θησεύς (Thiséfs), Θησέας (Thiséas)
  • Hebrew: תזאוס‎
  • Hungarian: Thészeusz
  • Icelandic: Þeseifur
  • Italian: Teseo
  • Japanese: テセウス (Teseusu)
  • Latin: Theseus
  • Lithuanian: Tesėjas
  • Luxembourgish: Theseus
  • Norwegian: Thesevs
  • Polish: Tezeusz
  • Portuguese: Teseu
  • Romanian: Tezeu
  • Russian: Тесе́й (Teséj)
  • Serbo-Croatian: Тезеј, Tezej
  • Slovene: Tezej
  • Spanish: Teseo
  • Swedish: Theseus
  • Turkish: Theseus
  • Ukrainian: Тесей (Tesej)
  • Urdu: تھیسیس‎

References
  • Θησεύς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Θησεύς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Θησεύς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Θησεύς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,027
  1. The Classical Journal, Volume 42, p. 34
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