θήρ

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Hellenic *kʷʰḗr, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwer-. Cognates include Latin ferus (“wild, savage”) and Old Church Slavonic звѣрь (zvěrĭ, “wild animal”).

θήρ • (thḗr) m or f (genitive θηρός); third declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ θήρ ho, hē thḗr	τὼ θῆρε tṑ thêre	οἱ, αἱ θῆρες hoi, hai thêres
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς θηρός toû, tês thērós	τοῖν θηροῖν toîn thēroîn	τῶν θηρῶν tôn thērôn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ θηρῐ́ tôi, têi thērí	τοῖν θηροῖν toîn thēroîn	τοῖς, ταῖς θηρσῐ́ / θηρσῐ́ν toîs, taîs thērsí(n)
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν θῆρᾰ tòn, tḕn thêra	τὼ θῆρε tṑ thêre	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς θῆρᾰς toùs, tā̀s thêras
Vocative	θήρ thḗr	θῆρε thêre	θῆρες thêres
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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“θήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“θήρ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
θήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
θήρ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“θήρ”, 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.
- animal idem, page 30.
- beast idem, page 67.
- brute idem, page 102.
- creature idem, page 183.
- monster idem, page 539.
“θήρ”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011