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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰý.os/ → /ˈθy.os/ → /ˈθi.os/
Noun
θῠ́ος • (thúos) n (genitive θῠ́εος); third declension
- burnt sacrifice, offering
- kind of cake
Inflection
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References
- “θύος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θύος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θύος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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