θωός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰɔː.ós/ → /θoˈos/ → /θoˈos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰɔː.ós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰoˈos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θoˈos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θoˈos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θoˈos/

Noun

θωός • (thōós) m (genitive θωοῦ); second declension

1. kind of bird

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ θωός; τοῦ θωοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ θωός ho thōós	τὼ θωώ tṑ thōṓ	οἱ θωοί hoi thōoí
Genitive	τοῦ θωοῦ toû thōoû	τοῖν θωοῖν toîn thōoîn	τῶν θωῶν tôn thōôn
Dative	τῷ θωῷ tôi thōôi	τοῖν θωοῖν toîn thōoîn	τοῖς θωοῖς toîs thōoîs
Accusative	τὸν θωόν tòn thōón	τὼ θωώ tṑ thōṓ	τοὺς θωούς toùs thōoús
Vocative	θωέ thōé	θωώ thōṓ	θωοί thōoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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