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θῡμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: θῡμός θυμοῦ

Structure: θῡμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qu/w2

Sense

  1. a warty excrescence, so called from its likeness to a bunch of thyme-flower
  2. the thymus gland

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative θῡμός θῡμώ θῡμοί
Genitive θῡμοῦ θῡμοῖν θῡμῶν
Dative θῡμῷ θῡμοῖν θῡμοῖς
Accusative θῡμόν θῡμώ θῡμούς
Vocative θῡμέ θῡμώ θῡμοί

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὅμωσ δ̓ ἐπείγου, θυμέ, γιγνώσκων ὅτι πτωχὸσ ποδαγρῶν, περιπατεῖν μὲν ἂν θέλῃ καὶ μὴ δύνηται, τοῦτον ἐν νεκροῖσ τίθει. (Lucian, 15)
  • πρόβαινέ νυν ὦ θυμέ· (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, iambics 3:33)
  • ὦ θυμὲ νυνὶ βωμολόχον ἔξευρέ τι. (Aristotle, Episode 1:4)
  • ἐν ἄλλοισ δέ φησιν αἰεὶ μ’, ὦ φίλε θυμέ, ὁ τανύπτεροσ ὡσ ὅκα πορφυρίσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 40 3:2)
  • τοῦ δ’ ἑτέρου θυμέ, θύμ’ ἀμηχάνοισι κήδεσιν κυκώμενε. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1716)

Synonyms

  1. a warty excrescence

    • θύμος (a warty excrescence, so called from its likeness to a bunch of thyme-flower)

  2. the thymus gland

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