θέναρ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰénwr̥ (“flat of the hand, palm”). Compare Sanskrit धन्वन् (dhanvan) and Old High German tenar.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰé.nar/ → /ˈθe.nar/ → /ˈθe.nar/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰé.nar/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰe.nar/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈθe.nar/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈθe.nar/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈθe.nar/

Noun

θένᾰρ • (thénăr) n (genitive θένᾰρος); third declension

1. the palm of the hand
2. the sole of the foot
3. the flat top of an altar

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ θένᾰρ; τοῦ θένᾰρος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ θένᾰρ tò thénăr	τὼ θένᾰρε tṑ thénăre	τᾰ̀ θένᾰρᾰ tằ thénără
Genitive	τοῦ θένᾰρος toû thénăros	τοῖν θενᾰ́ροιν toîn thenắroin	τῶν θενᾰ́ρων tôn thenắrōn
Dative	τῷ θένᾰρῐ tôi thénărĭ	τοῖν θενᾰ́ροιν toîn thenắroin	τοῖς θένᾰρσῐ / θένᾰρσῐν toîs thénărsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ θένᾰρ tò thénăr	τὼ θένᾰρε tṑ thénăre	τᾰ̀ θένᾰρᾰ tằ thénără
Vocative	θένᾰρ thénăr	θένᾰρε thénăre	θένᾰρᾰ thénără
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: thenar (learned)

Further reading

• “θέναρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θέναρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “θέναρ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• θέναρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• θέναρ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “θέναρ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • palm idem, page 590.