θρόνον

Ancient Greek

Etymology 1

Furnée compares the word with τρόνα (tróna, “statues; colorful stitchings”), which proves Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰró.non/ → /ˈθro.non/ → /ˈθro.non/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰró.non/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰro.non/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈθro.non/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈθro.non/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈθro.non/

Noun

θρόνον • (thrónon) n (genitive θρόνου); second declension

1. (in the plural) flowers embroidered on cloth
2. (in the plural) (botany) herbs used as drugs and charms

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ θρόνον; τοῦ θρόνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ θρόνον tò thrónon	τὼ θρόνω tṑ thrónō	τᾰ̀ θρόνᾰ tà thróna
Genitive	τοῦ θρόνου toû thrónou	τοῖν θρόνοιν toîn thrónoin	τῶν θρόνων tôn thrónōn
Dative	τῷ θρόνῳ tôi thrónōi	τοῖν θρόνοιν toîn thrónoin	τοῖς θρόνοις toîs thrónois
Accusative	τὸ θρόνον tò thrónon	τὼ θρόνω tṑ thrónō	τᾰ̀ θρόνᾰ tà thróna
Vocative	θρόνον thrónon	θρόνω thrónō	θρόνᾰ thróna
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰró.non/ → /ˈθro.non/ → /ˈθro.non/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰró.non/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰro.non/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈθro.non/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈθro.non/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈθro.non/

Noun

θρόνον • (thrónon) m

1. accusative singular of θρόνος (thrónos)

Further reading

• “θρόνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θρόνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “θρόνον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• θρόνον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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, →ISBN