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θύον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: θύον θύου

Structure: θυ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: qu/w

Sense

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

  • οἱ κῆποι, αὗται δὲ αἱ σκηναὶ συνεσκίαζον τοὺσ περιπάτουσ, ἑξῆσ δὲ τούτων Ἀφροδίσιον κατεσκεύαστο τρίκλινον, δάπεδον ἔχον ἐκ λίθων ἀχατῶν τε καὶ ἄλλων χαριεστάτων ὅσοι κατὰ τὴν νῆσον ἦσαν ` τοὺσ τοίχουσ δ’ εἶχε καὶ τὴν ὀροφὴν κυπαρίττου, τὰσ δὲ θύρασ ἐλέφαντοσ καὶ θύου γραφαῖσ δὲ καὶ ἀγάλμασιν, ἔτι δὲ ποτηρίων κατασκευαῖσ ὑπερβαλλόντωσ κατεσκεύαστο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 41 2:1)
  • πῦρ μὲν ἐπ’ ἐσχαρόφιν μέγα καίετο, τηλόσε δ’ ὀδμὴ κέδρου τ’ εὐκεάτοιο θύου τ’ ἀνὰ νῆσον ὀδώδει δαιομένων· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 5 6:6)
  • τῷ δὲ Ἑρμῇ τῷ Κυλληνίῳ τούτων μὲν ἀπὸ οὐδενόσ, θύου δὲ πεποιημένον τὸ ἄγαλμά ἐστιν, ὀκτὼ δὲ εἶναι ποδῶν μάλιστα αὐτὸ εἰκάζομεν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 17 3:2)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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