θρόνος

From Pre-Greek. Related to θρᾶνος (thrânos), θρῆνυς (thrênus).[1]

θρόνος • (thrónos) m (genitive θρόνου); second declension

(Epic, Attic, Ionic, Aeolic, Koine)

1. seat
2. throne
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Thalysia :

     τά που καὶ Ζηνὸς ἐπὶ θρόνον ἄγαγε φάμα

     tá pou kaì Zēnòs epì thrónon ágage pháma

• → Coptic: ⲑⲣⲟⲛⲟⲥ (thronos)
• Greek: θρόνος (thrónos)
• → Latin: thronus
  • Old French: trone
    • → Middle English: trone
      • English: throne
• → Russian: трон m (tron)

• θρόνος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• θρόνος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θρόνος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• θρόνος 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
• θρόνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• θρόνος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2362 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.
  • chair idem, page 122.
  • dais idem, page 193.
  • rule idem, page 725.
  • sceptre idem, page 738.
  • seat idem, page 746.
  • throne idem, page 870.
• The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., Clarendon Press, 1989

From Ancient Greek θρόνος.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθronos/
• Hyphenation: θρό‧νος

θρόνος • (thrónos) m (plural θρόνοι)

1. throne

   αυτοκρατορικός, πατριαρχικός, παπικός θρόνος ― aftokratorikós, patriarchikós, papikós thrónos ― imperial, patriarchic, papal throne

2. monarchy, the royal office

   ο θρόνος της Αγγλίας ― o thrónos tis Anglías ― English monarchy (literally:throne).

   σφετεριστής του θρόνου ― sfeteristís tou thrónou ― usurperer of the throne

   ανάρρηση στο θρόνο ― anárrisi sto thróno ― the proclamation to the throne

   χηρεύει ο θρόνος ― chirévei o thrónos ― the throne is vacant (literally: widowed)

• θρονί n (throní, “throne or any seat”) (literature)

• καρέκλα f (karékla, “chair”)

• εκθρονίζω (ekthronízo, “dethrone”)
• εκθρόνιση f (ekthrónisi, “dethronement”)
• εκθρονισμός m (ekthronismós, “dethronement”)
• ενθρονίζω (enthronízo, “enthrone”)
• ενθρόνιση f (enthrónisi, “enthronement”)
• ενθρονισμός m (enthronismós, “enthronement”)
• θρονί n (throní, “throne or any seat”) (literature)
• θρονιάζω (throniázo, “sit and not intending to give up the seat”) (negative sense)
• θρόνιασμα n (thróniasma, “the without giving up my seat”) (negative sense)
• πρωτόθρονος (protóthronos, “the leading episcopal throne”) (ecclesiastic)
• σύνθρονο n (sýnthrono, “series of seats in church, especially for priests”) (ecclesiastic)

Not related:

• πολυθρόνα f (polythróna, “armchair”) but associated by folk etymology