Θησεύς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Related to words describing law and institutions, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put”).[1] See θεσμός (thesmós, “institution”) and θέσις (thésis).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Θησεύς • (Thēseús) m (genitive Θησέως); third declension

  1. (Greek mythology) Theseus

Inflection
Third declension of ὁ Θησεύς; τοῦ Θησέως (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Θησεύς
ho Thēseús
Genitive τοῦ Θησέως
toû Thēséōs
Dative τῷ Θησεῖ
tôi Thēseî
Accusative τὸν Θησέᾱ
tòn Thēséā
Vocative Θησεῦ
Thēseû
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • Θησεῖα (Thēseîa)
  • Θησείδης (Thēseídēs)
  • Θησεῖον (Thēseîon)
  • Θησῇς (Thēsêis)

Descendants
  • → Arabic: ثِيسِيُوس (ṯīsiyūs)
  • → Breton: Theseüs
  • → Bulgarian: Тезей (Tezej)
  • → Catalan: Teseu
  • → Czech: Théseus
  • → Coptic: ⲑⲏⲥⲉⲩⲥ (thēseus)
  • → Danish: Theseus
  • → Dutch: Theseus
  • → Estonian: Theseus
  • → Finnish: Theseus
  • → French: Thésée
  • → Galician: Teseo
  • → German: Theseus
  • Greek: Θησεύς (Thiséfs), Θησέας (Thiséas)
  • → Hebrew: תזאוס
  • → Hungarian: Thészeusz
  • → Icelandic: Þeseifur
  • → Italian: Teseo
  • → Japanese: テセウス (Teseusu)
  • → Latin: Thēseus
  • → Lithuanian: Tesėjas
  • → Luxembourgish: Theseus
  • → Norwegian: Thesevs
  • → Polish: Tezeusz
  • → Portuguese: Teseu
  • → Romanian: Tezeu
  • → Russian: Тесе́й (Teséj)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: Тезеј, Tezej
  • → Sicilian: Tiseu
  • → Slovene: Tezej
  • → Spanish: Teseo
  • → Swedish: Theseus
  • → Turkish: Theseus
  • → Ukrainian: Тесей (Tesej)
  • → Urdu: تھیسیس (theses)

References
  • “Θησεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Θησεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “Θησεύς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • “Θησεύς”, 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,027
  1. The Classical Journal, Volume 42, p. 34
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