Θερσίτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰer.sǐː.tɛːs/ → /θerˈsi.tis/ → /θerˈsi.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰer.sǐː.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰerˈsi.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θerˈsi.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θerˈsi.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θerˈsi.tis/

Proper noun

Θερσῑ́της • (Thersī́tēs) m (genitive Θερσῑ́του); first declension

1. a male given name: Thersites

Inflection

First declension of ὁ Θερσῑ́της; τοῦ Θερσῑ́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Θερσῑ́της ho Thersī́tēs
Genitive	τοῦ Θερσῑ́του toû Thersī́tou
Dative	τῷ Θερσῑ́τῃ tôi Thersī́tēi
Accusative	τὸν Θερσῑ́την tòn Thersī́tēn
Vocative	Θερσῖτᾰ Thersîta
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Θερσίτης (Thersítis)
• Latin: Thersītēs

References

• “Θερσίτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Θερσίτης”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,027