θυρεός

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 26 December 2015

From θῠ́ρᾱ (thúrā).

θῠρεός • (thureós) m (genitive θῠρεοῦ); second declension

a stone put against a door to keep it shut, a door-stone
a wide oblong shield (like a door), opp. to ἀσπίς (aspís, “the round shield”) (as Lat. scūtum to clipeus)
disk forming part of καθετήρ (kathetḗr)
(mathematics) oval

Second declension of ὁ θῠρεός; τοῦ θῠρεοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ θῠρεός ho thureós	τὼ θῠρεώ tṑ thureṓ	οἱ θῠρεοί hoi thureoí
Genitive	τοῦ θῠρεοῦ toû thureoû	τοῖν θῠρεοῖν toîn thureoîn	τῶν θῠρεῶν tôn thureôn
Dative	τῷ θῠρεῷ tôi thureôi	τοῖν θῠρεοῖν toîn thureoîn	τοῖς θῠρεοῖς toîs thureoîs
Accusative	τὸν θῠρεόν tòn thureón	τὼ θῠρεώ tṑ thureṓ	τοὺς θῠρεούς toùs thureoús
Vocative	θῠρεέ thureé	θῠρεώ thureṓ	θῠρεοί thureoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

→ Aramaic: תָָּרִיס‎ (torīs), תְּרִיס‎ (tərīs), תְּרִיסָא‎ (tərīsā, “shield”)
→ Coptic: ⲑⲩⲣⲱⲛ (thurōn)
→ French: thyroïde
- → English: thyroid
Greek: θυρεός (thyreós, “coat of arms”)
→ Hebrew: תְּרִיס‎ (tris, “shutter”)
→ Arabic: تُرْس‎ (turs, “shield”)
- → Ottoman Turkish: ترس‎ (türs, “shield”)
- → Persian: ترس‎ (tors, “shield”)

θυρεός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
θυρεός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
θυρεός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
θυρεός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
θυρεός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
G2375 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979

θυρεός • (thyreós) m (plural θυρεοί)

declension of θυρεός