θυρωρός

Ancient Greek

From θύρα (thúra, “door”) + the root underlying οὖρος (oûros, “watcher, guardian”) and ἐρύω (erúō, “to protect, guard”).^[1]

θῠρωρός • (thŭrōrós) m or f (genitive θῠρωροῦ); second declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ θῠρωρός ho, hē thŭrōrós	τὼ θῠρωρώ tṑ thŭrōrṓ	οἱ, αἱ θῠρωροί hoi, hai thŭrōroí
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς θῠρωροῦ toû, tês thŭrōroû	τοῖν θῠρωροῖν toîn thŭrōroîn	τῶν θῠρωρῶν tôn thŭrōrôn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ θῠρωρῷ tôi, têi thŭrōrôi	τοῖν θῠρωροῖν toîn thŭrōroîn	τοῖς, ταῖς θῠρωροῖς toîs, taîs thŭrōroîs
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν θῠρωρόν tòn, tḕn thŭrōrón	τὼ θῠρωρώ tṑ thŭrōrṓ	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς θῠρωρούς toùs, tā̀s thŭrōroús
Vocative	θῠρωρέ thŭrōré	θῠρωρώ thŭrōrṓ	θῠρωροί thŭrōroí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “θύρα (COMP > θυρᾰ-ωρός (X 69), θυρ-ωρός, -ουρός)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 565-6

“θυρωρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“θυρωρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
θυρωρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- door-keeper idem, page 247.
- gate-keeper idem, page 354.
- guard idem, page 376.
- janitor idem, page 461.
- porter idem, page 627.
- warder idem, page 964.
“θυρωρός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011