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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From θήρ (thḗr, “animal, beast”) + -ῐον (-ion, diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰɛː.rí.on/ → /θiˈri.on/ → /θiˈri.on/
Noun
θηρῐ́ον • (thēríon) n (genitive θηρῐ́ου); second declension
- wild animal, beast, savage beast
- animal
- a poisonous animal
- (diminutive) a small animal, insect, worm
- (medicine) a malignant ulcer
- a term of reproach
- (astronomy) the constellation Lupus
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References
- “θηρίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θηρίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “θηρίον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- θηρίον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- θηρίον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G2342 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible