θόρυβος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Formation like ὄτοβος (ótobos), κόναβος (kónabos) and φλοῖσβος (phloîsbos). The reduplicated form τονθορύζω (tonthorúzō, “to mumble”) is comparable. Perhaps θρῦλος (thrûlos, “murmur”) also belong here. These variations suggest a Pre-Greek word.

Pronunciation

Noun

θόρῠβος • (thórubos) m (genitive θορῠ́βου); second declension (Attic, Ionic)

1. noise, especially of a crowd of people: uproar, clamor
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.92.7:

     ἦν δὲ θόρυβος πολὺς καὶ ἐκπληκτικός

     ên dè thórubos polùs kaì ekplēktikós

     there was a loud and astounding uproar

   • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1263:

     τίς αὖ παρ’ ἄντροις θόρυβος ἵσταται βοῆς;

     tís aû par’ ántrois thórubos hístatai boês?

     • 1932 translation by Sir Richard C. Jebb

       What is this sound of shouting near my cave?

   • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 546:

     ἦν δ’ ἂν ἡ πόλις πλέα / θορύβου στρατιωτῶν

     ên d’ àn hē pólis pléa / thorúbou stratiōtôn

     the city would be full of the noise of soldiers

   • 310 BCE – 240 BCE, Callimachus, Aetia Oxy..2079.30
2. tumult, confusion, trouble
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.181.1:

     ἡ δὲ Αἰγιναίη, τῆς ἐτριηράρχεε Ἀσωνίδης, καὶ τινά σφι θόρυβον παρέσχε

     hē dè Aiginaíē, tês etriērárkhee Asōnídēs, kaì tiná sphi thórubon paréskhe

     The Aeginetan trireme, of which Asonides was captain, did however give them some trouble.

   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.104:

     οἱ Ἀμφιπολῖται ἐς θόρυβον μέγαν κατέστησαν

     hoi Amphipolîtai es thórubon mégan katéstēsan

     The people of Amphipolis were put into great confusion

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “θόρυβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θόρυβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θόρυβος 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

Greek

Noun

θόρυβος • (thóryvos) m (plural θόρυβοι)

1. noise, racket
2. (figuratively) commotion, stir

Declension

Related terms

• θορυβώ (thoryvó, “to alarm; to make a noise”)
• θορυβώδης (thoryvódis, “noisy”)

Further reading

• θόρυβος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el