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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Related to words describing law and institutions, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put”).[1] See θεσμός (thesmós, “institution”) and θέσις (thésis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰɛː.sěu̯s/ → /θiˈseɸs/ → /θiˈsefs/
Proper noun
Θησεύς • (Thēseús) m (genitive Θησέως); third declension
- (Greek mythology) Theseus
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References
- “Θησεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Θησεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Θησεύς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- “Θησεύς”, 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
- ^ The Classical Journal, Volume 42, p. 34