θάλαμος

According to Beekes, most likely of Pre-Greek origin and perhaps cognate with θόλος (thólos).^[1] Kroonen however reconstructs Proto-Indo-European *dʰl̥h₂-em-o/eh₂-, and tentatively compares Proto-Germanic *dalą (“valley”);^[2] compare κάλαμος (kálamos), καλάμη (kalámē) for the formation.

Compare Phrygian θαλαμειδη (thalameidē, “sepulchral chamber”).^[3]

θᾰ́λᾰμος • (thắlămos) m (genitive θᾰλᾰ́μου); second declension

1. an inner chamber, room
   1. a bedroom
   2. a bed
   3. a bridechamber

      Synonyms: νῠμφών (nŭmphṓn), νῠμφεῖον (nŭmpheîon), εὐνᾱτήρῐον (eunātḗrĭon)

   4. a storeroom, especially for valuables
2. (religion) a shrine or chapel dedicated to Apis
3. (nautical) the lowest part of the ship

   Synonym: θᾰλᾰ́μη (thălắmē)

• Greek: θάλαμος (thálamos)
• → Latin: thalamus
  • Asturian: tálamu
  • ⇒ Asturian: talamera
  • → Catalan: tàlem
  • → English: thalamus
  • → French: thalamus
  • Galician: tambo (obsolete)
  • Italian: talamo
  • Sicilian: tàlamu
  • Spanish: tálamo
• ⇒ Translingual: Thalamoplana

• “θάλαμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θάλαμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “θάλαμος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• θάλαμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• θάλαμος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “θάλαμος”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• θάλαμος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007), Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bedroom idem, page 69.
  • bridal idem, page 97.
  • chamber idem, page 123.
  • marriage chamber idem, page 515.
  • treasure house idem, page 892.
• θάλαμος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

From Ancient Greek θάλαμος (thálamos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈθa.la.mos/

θάλαμος • (thálamos) m (plural θάλαμοι)

1. room, chamber
2. hospital ward, barrack room
3. compartment, cabin
4. (anatomy) thalamus (brain)

• θάλαμος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language