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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

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

  • διαρραγείησ, ὡσ μόθων εἶ καὶ φύσει κόβαλοσ, ὅστισ φενακίζεισ, φράσαι δ’ οὔπω τέτληκασ ἡμῖν, οἳ πολλὰ μοχθήσαντεσ οὐκ οὔσησ σχολῆσ προθύμωσ δεῦρ’ ἤλθομεν, πολλῶν θύμων ῥίζασ διεκπερῶντεσ. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Parodos19)
  • ὕδωρ δὲ πίνειν βάτραχοσ, ἀπολαῦσαι θύμων λαχάνων τε κάμπη, πρὸσ τὸ μὴ λοῦσθαι ῥύποσ, ὑπαίθριοσ χειμῶνα διάγειν κόψιχοσ, πνῖγοσ ὑπομεῖναι καὶ μεσημβρίασ λαλεῖν τέττιξ, ἐλαίῳ μηδὲ χρίεσθαι τὸ πᾶν κονιορτόσ, ἀνυπόδητοσ ὄρθρου περιπατεῖν γέρανοσ, καθεύδειν μηδὲ μικρὸν νυκτερίσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 34 2:1)
  • "τὰ λοιπὰ δ’ Ἰνδῶν πληγαὶ καὶ βίαι θυμῶν· (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 1, section 2 2:12)
  • εἶναι, θαυμαστὸν ὅτι δὴ παρορῶσιν ἐν τοῖσ θηρίοισ ἔργα καὶ κινήματα πολλὰ μὲν θυμῶν πολλὰ δὲ φόβων καὶ ναὶ μὰ Δία φθόνων καὶ ζηλοτυπιῶν αὐτοὶ δὲ καὶ κύνασ ἁμαρτάνοντασ καὶ ἵππουσ κολάζουσιν, οὐ διὰ κενῆσ ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ σωφρονισμῷ, λύπην δι’ ἀλγηδόνοσ ἐμποιοῦντεσ αὐτοῖσ, ἣν μετάνοιαν ὀνομάζομεν. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 3 21:2)
  • αἰ δ’ ἄγετε ξουθαὶ σιμβληίδεσ ἄκρα μέλισσαι φέρβεσθ’ ἠὲ θύμων ῥικνὰ περικνίδια, ἢ πετάλασ μάκωνοσ, ἢ ἀσταφιδίτιδα ῥῶγα, ἢ ἰόν, ἢ μάλων χνοῦν ἐπικαρπίδιον· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 2261)

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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