θώς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes it could be related to θῶσθαι (thôsthai, to eat) or alternatively from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

θώς (thṓs) m, f (genitive θωός); third declension

  1. jackal

Inflection

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Latin: thōs

References

  • θώς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • θώς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • θώς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
    • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill
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