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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *tʰūmós , from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós ( “ smoke ” ) . Cognates include Sanskrit धूम ( dhūmá ) , Lithuanian dūmas , Latin fūmus , Old Church Slavonic дꙑмъ ( dymŭ ) and Albanian tym .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /tʰyː.mós/ → /θyˈmos/ → /θiˈmos/
Noun
θῡμός • (thūmós ) m (genitive θῡμοῦ ) ; second declension ( Epic , Attic , Ionic , Doric , Aeolic , Koine )
soul , as the seat of emotion, feeling, and thought
soul , life , breath
soul , heart
desire , will
temper , passion , disposition
anger , rage , wrath
heart , love
thought , mind
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
Greek: θυμός ( thymós )
→ ? Albanian: tym
→ English: alexithymia , arithmothymia , cyclothymia , dysthymia , hyperthymia , hypothymia , isothymia , megalothymia , schizothymia
→ Russian: алекситими́я ( aleksitimíja ) , гипертими́я ( gipertimíja ) , гипотими́я ( gipotimíja ) , дистими́я ( distimíja ) , паратими́я ( paratimíja ) , циклотими́я ( ciklotimíja ) , шизотими́я ( šizotimíja )
References
“θυμός ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940 ) A Greek–English Lexicon , Oxford: Clarendon Press
“θυμός ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889 ) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon , New York: Harper & Brothers
“θυμός ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891 ) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges , New York: Harper and Brothers
θυμός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924 ) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition , Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“θυμός ”, in Slater, William J. (1969 ) Lexicon to Pindar , Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G2372 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 . aggravation idem, page 18.anger idem, page 29.bosom idem, page 90.bravery idem, page 94.breast idem, page 96.courage idem, page 178.fury idem, page 351.grit idem, page 374.heart idem, page 392.heat idem, page 392.high spirit idem, page 399.indignation idem, page 433.ire idem, page 459.life idem, page 489.mettle idem, page 527.mind idem, page 530.nerve idem, page 556.passion idem, page 597.rage idem, page 668.reins idem, page 688.soul idem, page 796.spirit idem, page 802.stamina idem, page 810.vitality idem, page 955.warmth idem, page 964.wrath idem, page 992.
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
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek θυμός ( thumós ) , from Proto-Hellenic *tʰūmós , from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós ( “ smoke ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
θυμός • (thymós ) m (plural θυμοί )
anger , rage
Declension
Declension of θυμός
singular
plural
nominative
θυμός ( thymós )
θυμοί ( thymoí )
genitive
θυμού ( thymoú )
θυμών ( thymón )
accusative
θυμό ( thymó )
θυμούς ( thymoús )
vocative
θυμέ ( thymé )
θυμοί ( thymoí )
Synonyms
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