θύμος

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust”). Compare θύμον (thúmon, “thyme”).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

θῠ́μος • (thúmos) m (genitive θῠ́μου); second declension

  1. a warty excrescence, so called from its likeness to a bunch of thyme-flower
  2. the thymus gland

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ θῠ́μος; τοῦ θῠ́μου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ θῠ́μος
ho thúmos 		τὼ θῠ́μω
tṑ thúmō 		οἱ θῠ́μοι
hoi thúmoi
Genitive τοῦ θῠ́μου
toû thúmou 		τοῖν θῠ́μοιν
toîn thúmoin 		τῶν θῠ́μων
tôn thúmōn
Dative τῷ θῠ́μῳ
tôi thúmōi 		τοῖν θῠ́μοιν
toîn thúmoin 		τοῖς θῠ́μοις
toîs thúmois
Accusative τὸν θῠ́μον
tòn thúmon 		τὼ θῠ́μω
tṑ thúmō 		τοὺς θῠ́μους
toùs thúmous
Vocative θῠ́με
thúme 		θῠ́μω
thúmō 		θῠ́μοι
thúmoi
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