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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰreu-, the same root of θρέομαι (thréomai, “to shriek, proclaim”) and Old Armenian երդնում (erdnum, “to swear, take an oath”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰró.os/ → /ˈθro.os/ → /ˈθro.os/
Noun
θρόος • (thróos) m (genitive θρόου); second declension
- noise, as of many voices
- murmur of a crowd
- report, rumour
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Further reading
- “θρόος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θρόος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “θρόος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- θρόος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- θρόος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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