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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From θῠ́ρᾱ (thúrā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰy.re.ós/ → /θy.reˈos/ → /θi.reˈos/
Noun
θῠρεός • (thureós) m (genitive θῠρεοῦ); second declension
- a stone put against a door to keep it shut, a door-stone
- a wide oblong shield (like a door), opp. to ἀσπίς (aspís, “the round shield”) (as Lat. scūtum to clipeus)
- disk forming part of καθετήρ (kathetḗr)
- (mathematics) oval
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “θυρεός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θυρεός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “θυρεός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- θυρεός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- θυρεός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G2375 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- “θυρεός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
Greek
Pronunciation
Noun
θυρεός • (thyreós) m (plural θυρεοί)
- (heraldry) coat of arms, escutcheon
Declension
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