Θήρων
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Can be connected to Latin torus (“swelling, bulge, knot”), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to spread, extend”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰɛ̌ː.rɔːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtʰe̝.ron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈθi.ron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈθi.ron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈθi.ron/
Proper noun
Θήρων • (Thḗrōn) m (genitive Θήρωνος); third declension
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “Θήρων”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,027
- Θήρων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette