θυεία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• θυείη (thueíē), θυεῖον (thueîon)

Etymology

Maybe from θύος (thúos, “burnt offering, incense”), but the concept of "vase for pounding the incense" is rather strange. According to Beekes, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuH- (“to fly about, to dash”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰy.ěː.aː/ → /θyˈi.a/ → /θiˈi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰy.ěː.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰyˈi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θyˈi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θyˈi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θiˈi.a/

Noun

θῠείᾱ • (thueíā) f (genitive θῠείᾱς); first declension

1. mortar (vessel)
2. cup of the cottabus

Declension

First declension of ἡ θῠείᾱ; τῆς θῠείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ἡ θῠείᾱ hē thueíā	αἱ θῠεῖαι hai thueîai
Genitive	τῆς θῠείᾱς tês thueíās	τῶν θῠειῶν tôn thueiôn
Dative	τῇ θῠείᾳ têi thueíāi	ταῖς θῠείαις taîs thueíais
Accusative	τὴν θῠείᾱν tḕn thueíān	τᾱ̀ς θῠείᾱς tā̀s thueíās
Vocative	θῠείᾱ thueíā	θῠεῖαι thueîai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• ἴγδις (ígdis)

Derived terms

• θυείδιον (thueídion)

Further reading

• “θυεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• θυεία 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