θορός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• θορή (thorḗ)

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”), the same root of θρῴσκω (thrṓiskō, “to spring, to leap”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰo.rós/ → /θoˈros/ → /θoˈros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰo.rós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰoˈros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θoˈros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θoˈros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θoˈros/

Noun

θορός • (thorós) m (genitive θοροῦ); second declension

1. semen, sperm

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ θορός; τοῦ θοροῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ θορός ho thorós	τὼ θορώ tṑ thorṓ	οἱ θοροί hoi thoroí
Genitive	τοῦ θοροῦ toû thoroû	τοῖν θοροῖν toîn thoroîn	τῶν θορῶν tôn thorôn
Dative	τῷ θορῷ tôi thorôi	τοῖν θοροῖν toîn thoroîn	τοῖς θοροῖς toîs thoroîs
Accusative	τὸν θορόν tòn thorón	τὼ θορώ tṑ thorṓ	τοὺς θορούς toùs thoroús
Vocative	θορέ thoré	θορώ thorṓ	θοροί thoroí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• θοραῖος (thoraîos)
• θορικός (thorikós)
• θορίσκομαι (thorískomai)
• θορόεις (thoróeis)
• θορώδης (thorṓdēs)

 

References

• “θορός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θορός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θορός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN