θυρεός
Second declension Noun; Masculine
수학
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
θυρεός
θυρεοῦ
Structure:
θυρε
(Stem)
+
ος
(Ending)
Sense
- a stone put against a door to keep it shut, a door-stone
- a wide oblong shield (like a door), opp. to ἀσπίς (aspís, “the round shield”) (as Lat. scūtum to clipeus)
- disk forming part of καθετήρ (kathetḗr)
- (mathematics) oval
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.
- καὶ ἐγένετο ἀπὸ τῆσ ἡμέρασ ἐκείνησ ἥμισυ τῶν ἐκτετιναγμένων ἐποίουν τὸ ἔργον καὶ ἥμισυ αὐτῶν ἀντείχοντο, καὶ λόγχαι καὶ θυρεοὶ καὶ τόξα καὶ θώρακεσ καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντεσ ὀπίσω παντὸσ οἴκου Ἰούδα (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 4:10)
- ὡσ πύργοσ Δαυί̈δ τράχηλόσ σου, ὁ ᾠκοδομημένοσ εἰσ θαλπιώθ. χίλιοι θυρεοὶ κρέμανται ἐπ̓ αὐτόν, πᾶσαι βολίδεσ τῶν δυνατῶν. (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 4:4)
- καὶ πάντεσ ἥξουσιν ἐπὶ σὲ ἀπὸ βορρᾶ, ἅρματα καὶ τροχοὶ μετ’ ὄχλου λαῶν, θυρεοὶ καὶ πέλται, καὶ βαλοῦσι φυλακὴν ἐπὶ σὲ κύκλῳ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 23:24)
- οὕτω γὰρ τῷ τε ἀκοντίζειν οὐδὲν ἐμποδὼν ἵσταται, καὶ οἱ θυρεοὶ προβέβληνται πρὸ τῶν ἀκοντιζόντων ἐν τῇ ἐπελάσει. (Arrian, chapter 36 8:1)
- "διέκειτο δὲ ἐπὶ μὲν τῶν τῆσ σκηνῆσ παραστάδων ζῷα μαρμάρινα τῶν πρώτων τεχνιτῶν ἑκατόν, ἐν δὲ ταῖσ ἀνὰ μέσον χώραισ πίνακεσ τῶν Σικυωνικῶν ζωγράφων, ἐναλλὰξ δ’ ἐπίλεκτοι εἰκασίαι παντοῖαι καὶ χιτῶνεσ χρυσουφεῖσ ἐφαπτίδεσ τε κάλλισται, τινὲσ μὲν εἰκόνασ ἔχουσαι τῶν βασιλέων ἐνυφασμένασ, αἱ δὲ μυθικὰσ διαθέσεισ, ὑπεράνω δὲ τούτων θυρεοὶ περιέκειντο ἐναλλάξ ἀργυροῖ τε καὶ χρυσοῖ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:83)
Synonyms
-
disk forming part of καθετήρ
- ἅλως (the disk of sun or moon)
