θηρίον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From θήρ (thḗr, “animal, beast”) +‎ -ῐον (-ion, diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰɛː.rí.on/ → /θiˈri.on/ → /θiˈri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰɛː.rí.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰe̝ˈri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θiˈri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θiˈri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θiˈri.on/

Noun

θηρῐ́ον • (thēríon) n (genitive θηρῐ́ου); second declension

1. wild animal, beast, savage beast
   1. animal
   2. a poisonous animal
2. (diminutive) a small animal, insect, worm
3. (medicine) a malignant ulcer
4. a term of reproach
5. (astronomy) the constellation Lupus

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ θηρῐ́ον; τοῦ θηρῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ θηρῐ́ον tò thēríon	τὼ θηρῐ́ω tṑ thēríō	τᾰ̀ θηρῐ́ᾰ tà thēría
Genitive	τοῦ θηρῐ́ου toû thēríou	τοῖν θηρῐ́οιν toîn thēríoin	τῶν θηρῐ́ων tôn thēríōn
Dative	τῷ θηρῐ́ῳ tôi thēríōi	τοῖν θηρῐ́οιν toîn thēríoin	τοῖς θηρῐ́οις toîs thēríois
Accusative	τὸ θηρῐ́ον tò thēríon	τὼ θηρῐ́ω tṑ thēríō	τᾰ̀ θηρῐ́ᾰ tà thēría
Vocative	θηρῐ́ον thēríon	θηρῐ́ω thēríō	θηρῐ́ᾰ thēría
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• (beast): θήρ (thḗr)
• (ulcer): θηρῐ́ωμα (thēríōma)

Derived terms

• θηριακός (thēriakós)
• θηρῐόδηγμα (thēriódēgma)
• θηρῐότης (thēriótēs)

 

Descendants

• Greek: θηρίο (thirío)
• → Coptic: ⲑⲏⲣⲓⲟⲛ (thērion)
• → English: therio-
• → Scientific Latin: -thērium
  • → English: -there
  • → French: -thère

References

• “θηρίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θηρίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “θηρίον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• θηρίον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• θηρίον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G2342 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • animal idem, page 30.
  • beast idem, page 67.
  • brute idem, page 102.
  • creature idem, page 183.
  • cur idem, page 189.
  • monster idem, page 539.
• “θηρίον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011