θήρ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• φήρ (phḗr) — Aeolic

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *kʷʰḗr, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwer-. Cognates include Latin ferus and Old Church Slavonic звѣрь (zvěrĭ).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰɛ̌ːr/ → /θir/ → /θir/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰɛ̌ːr/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰe̝r/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θir/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θir/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θir/

Noun

θήρ • (thḗr) m or f (genitive θηρός); third declension

1. a wild beast, beast of prey, especially a lion
2. any animal
3. a fantastic animal, such as the Sphinx

Usage notes

• Originally masculine gender but later feminine.

Declension

Third declension of ὁ, ἡ θήρ; τοῦ, τῆς θηρός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ θήρ ho, hē thḗr	τὼ θῆρε tṑ thêre	οἱ, αἱ θῆρες hoi, hai thêres
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς θηρός toû, tês thērós	τοῖν θηροῖν toîn thēroîn	τῶν θηρῶν tôn thērôn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ θηρῐ́ tôi, têi thērí	τοῖν θηροῖν toîn thēroîn	τοῖς, ταῖς θηρσῐ́ / θηρσῐ́ν toîs, taîs thērsí(n)
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν θῆρᾰ tòn, tḕn thêra	τὼ θῆρε tṑ thêre	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς θῆρᾰς toùs, tā̀s thêras
Vocative	θήρ thḗr	θῆρε thêre	θῆρες thêres
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• θηρίον (thēríon)

Descendants

• Aeolic Greek: φήρ (phḗr)
• →? Svan: თხე̄რე (txēre, “wolf”), თხა̈̄რე (txǟre), თხერე (txere)

References

• “θήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “θήρ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• θήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• θήρ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “θήρ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • animal idem, page 30.
  • beast idem, page 67.
  • brute idem, page 102.
  • creature idem, page 183.
  • monster idem, page 539.