θάμνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

This word exists next to θαμινός (thaminós, “crowded, close-set”) and θαμά (thamá, “often”) just as πυκνός (puknós, “thick, dense”) next to πυκινός (pukinós, “thick”) and πύκα (púka, “thickly, strongly”); the barytonesis is caused by the substantivization. Not, as per Alessio, related to Latin tamnus (“kind of grape”). With its ending in -αμνος, the word seems Pre-Greek; its meaning makes this quite possible.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰám.nos/ → /ˈθam.nos/ → /ˈθam.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰám.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰam.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈθam.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈθam.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈθam.nos/

Noun

θᾰ́μνος • (thámnos) m or f (genitive θᾰ́μνου); second declension

1. (botany) bush, shrub
2. thick copse

Declension

Second declension of ὁ θᾰ́μνος; τοῦ θᾰ́μνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ θᾰ́μνος ho thámnos	τὼ θᾰ́μνω tṑ thámnō	οἱ θᾰ́μνοι hoi thámnoi
Genitive	τοῦ θᾰ́μνου toû thámnou	τοῖν θᾰ́μνοιν toîn thámnoin	τῶν θᾰ́μνων tôn thámnōn
Dative	τῷ θᾰ́μνῳ tôi thámnōi	τοῖν θᾰ́μνοιν toîn thámnoin	τοῖς θᾰ́μνοις toîs thámnois
Accusative	τὸν θᾰ́μνον tòn thámnon	τὼ θᾰ́μνω tṑ thámnō	τοὺς θᾰ́μνους toùs thámnous
Vocative	θᾰ́μνε thámne	θᾰ́μνω thámnō	θᾰ́μνοι thámnoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• θᾰ́μνα (thámna)
• θᾰμνῖτῐς (thamnîtis)
• θᾰμνοειδής (thamnoeidḗs)
• θᾰμνομήκης (thamnomḗkēs)
• θᾰμνοφᾰ́γος (thamnophágos)
• θᾰμνώδης (thamnṓdēs)
• θᾰμνᾱ́ς (thamnā́s)
• θᾰμνῐ́σκος (thamnískos)

 

Descendants

• Greek: θάμνος (thámnos)

Further reading

• “θάμνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θάμνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θάμνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Greek

Noun

θάμνος • (thámnos) m (plural θάμνοι)

1. bush (woody plant of medium size)

Declension

Declension of θάμνος

	singular	plural
nominative	θάμνος •	θάμνοι •
genitive	θάμνου •	θάμνων •
accusative	θάμνο •	θάμνους •
vocative	θάμνε •	θάμνοι •

Further reading

• θάμνος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el