τηΰσιος

• τᾱΰσῐος (tāǘsios) — Doric

An isolated poetic adjective. If it originally meant "deceptive", from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teh₂y- (“to steal”), cognate with Sanskrit तायु (tāyu, “thief”), Avestan 𐬙𐬁𐬫𐬎 (tāyu, “thief”), Hittite (tāyezzi), (tāyazzi, “to steal”), Proto-Slavic *tajiti (“to hide, conceal”), etc. The suffix -σῐος may have been added directly to an unattested noun *τᾱΰς (*tāǘs) after the pattern of δημόσιος (dēmósios) from δῆμος (dêmos). Compare also τητάομαι (tētáomai, “to lack, be in want, be robbed”).

τηΰσῐος • (tēǘsios) m (feminine τηϋσῐ́ᾱ, neuter τηΰσῐον); first/second declension

1. (poetic) idle, vain, undertaken to no purpose

• “τηΰσιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τηΰσιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “τηΰσιος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• τηΰσιος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• τηΰσιος 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