Τηθύς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Possibly connected with Ancient Greek τήθη (tḗthē, “grandmother”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck”), as she is referred to in Homer on two occasions as “mother of the gods”.

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Τηθῡ́ς • (Tēthū́s) f (genitive Τηθῠ́ος); third declension

  1. Tethys (a Titan)

Inflection
Third declension of ἡ Τηθῡ́ς; τῆς Τηθῠ́ος (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Τηθῡ́ς
hē Tēthū́s
Genitive τῆς Τηθῠ́ος
tês Tēthúos
Dative τῇ Τηθῠ́ῐ̈
têi Tēthúï
Accusative τὴν Τηθῡ́ν
tḕn Tēthū́n
Vocative Τηθῡ́
Tēthū́
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • Greek: Τηθύς (Tithýs)
  • Latin: Tēthȳs

References
  • “Τηθύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Τηθύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “Τηθύς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,027
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