θέρος

From Proto-Hellenic *tʰéros, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰéros (“heat; warm weather”), from *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”) +‎ *-os (action noun suffix).

θέρος • (théros) n (genitive θέρους or θέρεος); third declension

1. heat
2. summer
3. harvest, crop

• θερινός (therinós)

• θέρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• θέρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θέρος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• θέρος 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
• θέρος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• θέρος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2330 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • crop idem, page 185.
  • harvest idem, page 387.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθe̞ro̞s/
• Hyphenation: θέ‧ρος

A borrowing from Ancient Greek θέρος (théros), retaining the neuter gender.

θέρος • (théros) n (uncountable)

1. (singular only, formal, sciences) summer, summertime

   Synonym: καλοκαίρι (kalokaíri)

• άνοιξη f (ánoixi, “spring”)
• έαρ f (éar, “spring”)
• εποχή f (epochí, “season”)
• καλοκαίρι n (kalokaíri, “summer”)
• φθινόπωρο n (fthinóporo, “autumn, fall”)
• χειμώνας m (cheimónas, “winter”)

From Ancient Greek θέρος (théros) with change of gender to masculine.

θέρος • (théros) m (uncountable)

1. (singular only) harvest, vintage
2. (singular only) harvest time

• θέρος in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.