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θυρεός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 수학 Transliteration:

Principal Part: θυρεός θυρεοῦ

Structure: θυρε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qu/ra

Sense

  1. a stone put against a door to keep it shut, a door-stone
  2. a wide oblong shield (like a door), opp. to ἀσπίς ‎(aspís, “the round shield”) (as Lat. scūtum to clipeus)
  3. disk forming part of καθετήρ ‎(kathetḗr)
  4. (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.

Examples

  • Καὶ ἐπορεύθη ὁ ἀλλόφυλοσ πορευόμενοσ καὶ ἐγγίζων πρὸσ Δαυίδ, καὶ ἀνὴρ ὁ αἴρων τὸν θυρεὸν ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐπέβλεψεν ὁ ἀλλόφυλος (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 17:53)
  • καὶ ἐποίησεν ὁ βασιλεὺσ Σαλωμὼν διακοσίουσ θυρεοὺσ χρυσοῦσ ἐλατούσ, ἑξακόσιοι χρυσοῖ καθαροὶ ἐπῆσαν ἐπὶ τὸν ἕνα θυρεόν. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 9:13)
  • καὶ συνήγαγεν Ἀμασίασ τὸν οἶκον Ἰούδα καὶ ἀνέστησεν αὐτοὺσ κατ’ οἴκουσ πατριῶν αὐτῶν εἰσ χιλιάρχουσ καὶ ἑκατοντάρχουσ ἐν παντὶ Ἰούδᾳ καὶ Ἱερουσαλήμ. καὶ ἠρίθμησεν αὐτοὺσ ἀπὸ εἰκοσαετοῦσ καὶ ἐπάνω καὶ εὗρεν αὐτοὺσ τριακοσίασ χιλιάδασ ἐξελθεῖν εἰσ πόλεμον δυνατοὺσ κρατοῦντασ δόρυ καὶ θυρεόν. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 25:5)
  • διὰ τοῦτο οὕτω λέγει Κύριοσ ἐπὶ βασιλέα Ἀσσυρίων. οὐ μὴ εἰσέλθῃ εἰσ τὴν πόλιν ταύτην οὐδὲ μὴ βάλῃ ἐπὶ αὐτὴν βέλοσ οὐδὲ μὴ ἐπιβάλῃ ἐπ̓ αὐτὴν θυρεόν, οὐδὲ μὴ κυκλώσῃ ἐπ̓ αὐτὴν χάρακα, (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 37:33)
  • οἳ δὲ καὶ δύο ὑπολειπόμενοι ἐπειδὰν ἐπελάσωσιν, ἤδη τὸ ὑπολειφθὲν ὑπὸ τὸν θυρεὸν, ἐγκλίναντεσ ὀλίγον τὴν κεφαλὴν καὶ τὴν δεξιὰν πλευράν, ὡσ ἀνυστόν, περιελίξαντεσ ἐσ τοὐπίσω σφῶν ἐξηκόντισαν. (Arrian, chapter 39 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. disk forming part of καθετήρ ‎

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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