θησαυρός
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θησαυρός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Beekes derives it from Pre-Greek, based on its technical semantic domain and lack of resemblance to various Indo-European roots.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰɛː.sau̯.rós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tʰe̝.sawˈros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /θi.saˈβros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /θi.saˈvros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /θi.saˈvros/
Noun
θησαυρός • (thēsaurós) m (genitive θησαυροῦ); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ θησαυρός ho thēsaurós |
τὼ θησαυρώ tṑ thēsaurṓ |
οἱ θησαυροί hoi thēsauroí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ θησαυροῦ toû thēsauroû |
τοῖν θησαυροῖν toîn thēsauroîn |
τῶν θησαυρῶν tôn thēsaurôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ θησαυρῷ tôi thēsaurôi |
τοῖν θησαυροῖν toîn thēsauroîn |
τοῖς θησαυροῖς toîs thēsauroîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν θησαυρόν tòn thēsaurón |
τὼ θησαυρώ tṑ thēsaurṓ |
τοὺς θησαυρούς toùs thēsauroús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | θησαυρέ thēsauré |
θησαυρώ thēsaurṓ |
θησαυροί thēsauroí | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: θησαυρός (thisavrós)
- Latin: thēsaurus
- Catalan: tesaurus, tresor
- Old French: tresor (see there for further descendants)
- French: thésaurus
- Galician: tesouro
- Italian: tesauro, tesoro
- Sicilian: tisoru
- Spanish: tesauro, tesoro
- Portuguese: tesauro, tesouro, tesoiro, thesaurus
- Romanian: tezaur
- → Albanian: thesar
- → Armenian: թեզաուրուս (tʻezaurus)
- → Czech: tezaurus
- → Danish: tesaurus
- → Dutch: thesaurus
- → English: thesaurus
- → Esperanto: tezaŭro
- → German: Thesaurus
- → Hungarian: tezaurusz
- → Ido: tezauro
- → Indonesian: tesaurus
- → Macedonian: тезаурус (tezaurus)
- → Malay: tesaurus
- → Norwegian: tesaurus
- → Polish: tezaurus
- → Russian: теза́урус (tezáurus)
- → Serbo-Croatian: tezaurus/тезаурус
- → Slovak: tezaurus
- → Swedish: tesaurus
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “θησαυρός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 548
Further reading
- “θησαυρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θησαυρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θησαυρός 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
- “θησαυρός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2344 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós).
Pronunciation
Noun
θησαυρός • (thisavrós) m (plural θησαυροί)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | θησαυρός (thisavrós) | θησαυροί (thisavroí) |
| genitive | θησαυρού (thisavroú) | θησαυρών (thisavrón) |
| accusative | θησαυρό (thisavró) | θησαυρούς (thisavroús) |
| vocative | θησαυρέ (thisavré) | θησαυροί (thisavroí) |
Derived terms
- κυνήγι θησαυρού n (kynígi thisavroú, “treasure hunt”)