θυμάλωψ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Formation like αἱμάλωψ (haimálōps, “mass of blood, clot”) and νυκτάλωψ (nuktálōps, “night-blindness”). Since the present word has nothing to do with "seeing", we are probably dealing with a Pre-Greek suffix -λωψ. Confront also ἀγχίλωψ (ankhílōps) and αἰγίλωψ (aigílōps).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰyː.má.lɔːps/ → /θyˈma.lops/ → /θiˈma.lops/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰyː.má.lɔːps/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰyˈma.lops/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θyˈma.lops/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θyˈma.lops/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θiˈma.lops/

Noun

θῡμᾰ́λωψ • (thūmálōps) m (genitive θῡμᾰ́λωπος); third declension

1. piece of burning wood or charcoal

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ θῡμᾰ́λωψ; τοῦ θῡμᾰ́λωπος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ θῡμᾰ́λωψ ho thūmálōps	τὼ θῡμᾰ́λωπε tṑ thūmálōpe	οἱ θῡμᾰ́λωπες hoi thūmálōpes
Genitive	τοῦ θῡμᾰ́λωπος toû thūmálōpos	τοῖν θῡμᾰλώποιν toîn thūmalṓpoin	τῶν θῡμᾰλώπων tôn thūmalṓpōn
Dative	τῷ θῡμᾰ́λωπῐ tôi thūmálōpi	τοῖν θῡμᾰλώποιν toîn thūmalṓpoin	τοῖς θῡμᾰ́λωψῐ / θῡμᾰ́λωψῐν toîs thūmálōpsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν θῡμᾰ́λωπᾰ tòn thūmálōpa	τὼ θῡμᾰ́λωπε tṑ thūmálōpe	τοὺς θῡμᾰ́λωπᾰς toùs thūmálōpas
Vocative	θῡμᾰ́λωψ thūmálōps	θῡμᾰ́λωπε thūmálōpe	θῡμᾰ́λωπες thūmálōpes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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