θρόος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• θροῦς (throûs) — Attic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰreu-, the same root of θρέομαι (thréomai, “to shriek, proclaim”) and Old Armenian երդնում (erdnum, “to swear, take an oath”).

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Noun

θρόος • (thróos) m (genitive θρόου); second declension

1. noise, as of many voices
2. murmur of a crowd
3. report, rumour

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ θρόος; τοῦ θρόου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ θρόος ho thróos	τὼ θρόω tṑ thróō	οἱ θρόοι hoi thróoi
Genitive	τοῦ θρόου toû thróou	τοῖν θρόοιν toîn thróoin	τῶν θρόων tôn thróōn
Dative	τῷ θρόῳ tôi thróōi	τοῖν θρόοιν toîn thróoin	τοῖς θρόοις toîs thróois
Accusative	τὸν θρόον tòn thróon	τὼ θρόω tṑ thróō	τοὺς θρόους toùs thróous
Vocative	θρόε thróe	θρόω thróō	θρόοι thróoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀθρόος (athróos)

Further reading

• “θρόος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θρόος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “θρόος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• θρόος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• θρόος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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