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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative θύον θύω θύα
Genitive θύου θύοιν θύων
Dative θύῳ θύοιν θύοις
Accusative θύον θύω θύα
Vocative θύον θύω θύα

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

  • ἡνίκα δὲ ἐσκλήρυνε Φαραὼ ἐξαποστεῖλαι ἡμᾶσ, ἀπέκτεινε πᾶν πρωτότοκον ἐν γῇ Αἰγύπτῳ, ἀπὸ πρωτοτόκων ἀνθρώπων ἕωσ πρωτοτόκων κτηνῶν. καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἐγὼ θύω πᾶν διανοῖγον μήτραν, τὰ ἀρσενικά, τῷ Κυρίῳ, καὶ πᾶν πρωτότοκον τῶν υἱῶν μου λυτρώσομαι. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 13:15)
  • ὅθεν νόμοισι τοῖσιν ἥδεται θεὰ Ἄρτεμισ, ἑορτῆσ, τοὔνομ’ ἧσ καλὸν μόνον ‐ τὰ δ’ ἄλλα σιγῶ, τὴν θεὸν φοβουμένη ‐ θύω γὰρ ὄντοσ τοῦ νόμου καὶ πρὶν πόλει, ὃσ ἂν κατέλθῃ τήνδε γῆν Ἕλλην ἀνήρ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 1:13)
  • Πάτερ, τί θύω πρὶν κτανεῖν Εὐρυσθέα καθάρσιον πῦρ, καὶ πόνουσ διπλοῦσ ἔχω; (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 1:8)
  • οὐκ ἄρτι θύω τὴν δεκάτην ταύτησ ἐγώ, καὶ τοὔνομ’ ὥσπερ παιδίῳ νῦν δὴ ’θέμην; (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, lyric13)
  • "οὐ θύω βοῦν, ἄθλιε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 28 3:24)

Related

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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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