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θύριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: θύριον θύριου

Structure: θυρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: qu/ra의 지소사,

Sense

  1. a little door, wicket

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

  • ὁρᾷσ τὸ θύριον τοῦτο; (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue 1:27)
  • σιωπῶ τὸ θύριον; (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue 1:30)
  • ἀκούω καὶ σιωπῶ τὸ θύριον; (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue 1:32)
  • ἀλλὰ δῆτα τὸ θύριον φθεγγόμενον ἄλλωσ κλαυσιᾷ. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode3)
  • ἐσ ἀγῶνα γὰρ προκαλέσασθαι αὐτὸν ἐπὶ ῥητῷ πληγῶν ἀριθμῷ, καὶ πρῶτον μὲν αὐτὸσ αὐλῆσαι πονηρῶσ, μετὰ δὲ παραδοὺσ τοὺσ αὐλοὺσ ἐκείνῳ δέξασθαι παρ’ αὐτοῦ τὸ σκῦτοσ καὶ τὸ ξιφίδιον καὶ ἀπορρῖψαι τάχιστα διὰ τῆσ φωταγωγοῦ ἐσ τὸ ὕπαιθρον τῆσ αὐλῆσ, καὶ τὸ ἀπὸ τούτου ἀσφαλέστεροσ ἤδη προσπαλαίων αὐτῷ ἐπικαλεῖσθαι τοὺσ γειτνιῶντασ, ὑφ’ ὧν ἀνασπασάντων τὸ θύριον σωθῆναι αὐτόσ. (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 20:6)

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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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