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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From τίθημι ( títhēmi , “ to place, put ” ) .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /tʰɛ̌ː.kɛː/ → /ˈθi.ci/ → /ˈθi.ci/
Noun
θήκη • (thḗkē ) f (genitive θήκης ) ; first declension
box , chest
grave , tomb
sword sheath
Inflection
Derived terms
-θήκη ( -thḗkē ) & compounds
Descendants
Greek: θήκη f ( thíki , “ case, sheath ” )
→ Hebrew: תִּיק ( tík, tīq )
→ Latin: thēca (see there for further descendants )
→ Serbo-Croatian: teka
Further reading
“θήκη ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940 ) A Greek–English Lexicon , Oxford: Clarendon Press
“θήκη ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889 ) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon , New York: Harper & Brothers
θήκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935 ) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français , Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001 ) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature , Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
G2336 in Strong, James (1979 ) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910 ) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language , London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited . bin idem, page 79.box idem, page 92.cabinet idem, page 108.case idem, page 116.casket idem, page 116.chest idem, page 129.coffer idem, page 141.grave idem, page 371.safe idem, page 730.tomb idem, page 880.trunk idem, page 898.
θήκη - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago .
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek θήκη ( thḗkē ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
θήκη • (thíki ) f (plural θήκες )
case , sheath , holster ( close fitting cover or container for something )
Declension
declension of θήκη
case \ number
singular
plural
nominative
θήκη •
θήκες •
genitive
θήκης •
θηκών •
accusative
θήκη •
θήκες •
vocative
θήκη •
θήκες •
Related terms
Further reading
θήκη - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.