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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
According to Beekes, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”), the same root of θρῴσκω (thrṓiskō, “to spring, to leap”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰo.rós/ → /θoˈros/ → /θoˈros/
Noun
θορός • (thorós) m (genitive θοροῦ); second declension
- semen, sperm
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References
- “θορός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θορός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θορός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN