θύμον
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From θύω (thúō, “to smoke”). Beekes suggests that this is "doubtful" and that "[a]s a local plant name, the word is liable to be of Pre-Greek origin".[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰý.mon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtʰy.mon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈθy.mon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈθy.mon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈθi.mon/
Noun
[edit]θύμον • (thúmon) n (genitive θύμου); second declension
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ θῠ́μον tò thúmon |
τὼ θῠ́μω tṑ thúmō |
τᾰ̀ θῠ́μᾰ tà thúma | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ θῠ́μου toû thúmou |
τοῖν θῠ́μοιν toîn thúmoin |
τῶν θῠ́μων tôn thúmōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ θῠ́μῳ tôi thúmōi |
τοῖν θῠ́μοιν toîn thúmoin |
τοῖς θῠ́μοις toîs thúmois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ θῠ́μον tò thúmon |
τὼ θῠ́μω tṑ thúmō |
τᾰ̀ θῠ́μᾰ tà thúma | ||||||||||
Vocative | θῠ́μον thúmon |
θῠ́μω thúmō |
θῠ́μᾰ thúma | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “thyme”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading
[edit]- “θύμον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θύμον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θύμον 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
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the second declension
- grc:Mint family plants
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