θύμαλλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The word has been connected with θύμον (thúmon, “thyme”), because of its scent. However, as the suffix -αλλος is Pre-Greek, it is improbable that the basic word was of inner-Greek formation.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰý.mal.los/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰy.mal.los/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈθy.mal.los/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈθy.mal.los/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈθi.ma.los/

Noun

θῠ́μᾰλλος • (thŭ́măllos) m (genitive θῠμᾰ́λλου); second declension

unknown kind of fish, perhaps the grayling

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ θῠ́μᾰλλος; τοῦ θῠμᾰ́λλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ θῠ́μᾰλλος ho thŭ́măllos	τὼ θῠμᾰ́λλω tṑ thŭmắllō	οἱ θῠ́μᾰλλοι hoi thŭ́mălloi
Genitive	τοῦ θῠμᾰ́λλου toû thŭmắllou	τοῖν θῠμᾰ́λλοιν toîn thŭmắlloin	τῶν θῠμᾰ́λλων tôn thŭmắllōn
Dative	τῷ θῠμᾰ́λλῳ tôi thŭmắllōi	τοῖν θῠμᾰ́λλοιν toîn thŭmắlloin	τοῖς θῠμᾰ́λλοις toîs thŭmắllois
Accusative	τὸν θῠ́μᾰλλον tòn thŭ́măllon	τὼ θῠμᾰ́λλω tṑ thŭmắllō	τοὺς θῠμᾰ́λλους toùs thŭmắllous
Vocative	θῠ́μᾰλλε thŭ́mălle	θῠμᾰ́λλω thŭmắllō	θῠ́μᾰλλοι thŭ́mălloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ Italian: temolo
→ Translingual: Thymallus

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