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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From τίθημι (títhēmi, “to stand”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰé.me.tʰla/ → /ˈθe.me.θla/ → /ˈθe.me.θla/
Noun
θέμεθλᾰ • (thémethla) n pl (genitive θεμέθλων); second declension
- foundations, lowest part, roots
- eye socket (Homer)
Declension
Further reading
- “θέμεθλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θέμεθλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “θέμεθλα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- θέμεθλα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- θέμεθλα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963