θεσμός

• θεθμός (thethmós) — Laconian
• τεθμός (tethmós) — Doric

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁-dʰmó-s, from *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”). Cognate with Welsh deddf (“act, statute”).

θεσμός • (thesmós) m (genitive θεσμοῦ); second declension

1. that which is laid down, law, ordinance
2. (in general) rule, precept, rite
3. institution, tribunal
4. site, place

• Greek: θεσμός (thesmós)

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

From Ancient Greek θεσμός (thesmós), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put”).

θεσμός • (thesmós) m (plural θεσμοί)

1. institution (society custom or practice)

   Ο γάμος αποτελεί θεσμό που επινόησαν οι κοινωνίες.

   O gámos apoteleí thesmó pou epinóisan oi koinoníes.

   Marriage is an institution invented by society.