θεωρός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

θεαορός (theaorós) (uncontracted)
θεᾱρός (theārós) (Doric)
θεουρός (theourós) (Thessalian)
θευρός (theurós)
θιᾱρός (thiārós) (Corcyrean)

Etymology

From an earlier *θεᾱ-(ϝ)ορός (*theā-(w)orós), *θεη-(ϝ)ορός (*theē-(w)orós), from the roots of θέᾱ (théā, “sight, view, perspective”) + ὁράω (horáō, “I see”), i.e. "(of one who) watches a show". A relation to θεός (theós, “god”) is implausible according to Beekes.^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰe.ɔː.rós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰe.oˈros/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θe.oˈros/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θe.oˈros/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θe.oˈros/

Noun

θεωρός • (theōrós) m (genitive θεωροῦ); second declension

spectator
envoy sent to consult an oracle

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ θεωρός; τοῦ θεωροῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ θεωρός ho theōrós	τὼ θεωρώ tṑ theōrṓ	οἱ θεωροί hoi theōroí
Genitive	τοῦ θεωροῦ toû theōroû	τοῖν θεωροῖν toîn theōroîn	τῶν θεωρῶν tôn theōrôn
Dative	τῷ θεωρῷ tōî theōrōî	τοῖν θεωροῖν toîn theōroîn	τοῖς θεωροῖς toîs theōroîs
Accusative	τὸν θεωρόν tòn theōrón	τὼ θεωρώ tṑ theōrṓ	τοὺς θεωρούς toùs theōroús
Vocative	θεωρέ theōré	θεωρώ theōrṓ	θεωροί theōroí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

θεωρέω (theōréō)
θεωρίᾱ (theōríā)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “θεωρός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 545

“θεωρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“θεωρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
θεωρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
θεωρός 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- beholder idem, page 72.
- deputy idem, page 213.
- envoy idem, page 279.
- messenger idem, page 527.
- observer idem, page 567.
- onlooker idem, page 574.
- spectator idem, page 800.
- watcher idem, page 967.
θεωρός, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “θεωρός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 545

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