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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From τῐ́θημῐ (títhēmi, “I place”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰɛ̌ːs/ → /θis/ → /θis/
Noun
θής • (thḗs) m (genitive θητός); third declension
- serf
- bondsman
- (later) hired laborer
Inflection
Derived terms
References
- “θής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “θής”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- θής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- θής in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- θής in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.