Τηθύς
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Possibly connected with Ancient Greek τήθη (tḗthē, “grandmother”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck”), as she is referred to in Homer on two occasions as “mother of the gods”.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tɛː.tʰy̌ːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /te̝ˈtʰys/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /tiˈθys/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /tiˈθys/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /tiˈθis/
Proper noun
Τηθῡ́ς • (Tēthū́s) f (genitive Τηθῠ́ος); third declension
- Tethys (a Titan)
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “Τηθύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Τηθύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Τηθύς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,027