τείρεα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Like τέρας (téras, “sign, marvel”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /těː.re.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈti.re.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈti.re.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈti.re.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈti.re.a/
Noun
τείρεᾰ • (teíreă) n pl (genitive τειρέων); third declension
- (astronomy) stars or constellations
Declension
| Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τᾰ̀ τείρεᾰ tằ teíreă | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῶν τειρέων tôn teiréōn | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τοῖς τείρεσῐ / τείρεσῐν toîs teíresĭ(n) | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τᾰ̀ τείρεᾰ tằ teíreă | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | τείρεᾰ teíreă | ||||||||||||
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References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “τείρεα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1458
Further reading
- “τεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τεῖρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τεῖρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τείρεα in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- τείρεα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- τείρεα, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011