Θέτις
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From τίθημι (títhēmi).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰé.tis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtʰe.tis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈθe.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈθe.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈθe.tis/
Proper noun
Θέτῐς • (Thétis) f (genitive Θέτῐδος or Θέτῐος); third declension
Inflection
Derived terms
- Θετῐ́δειος (Thetídeios)
Descendants
References
- “Θέτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Θέτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Θέτις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Θέτις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “Θέτις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,027
Greek
Proper noun
Θέτις • (Thétis) f
- (Greek mythology) a female given name, Thetis mother of Achilles