θήκη

See also: -θήκη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τίθημι (títhēmi, “to place, put”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰɛ̌ː.kɛː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰe̝.ke̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈθi.ci/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈθi.ci/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈθi.ci/

Noun

θήκη • (thḗkē) f (genitive θήκης); first declension

Inflection

First declension of ἡ θήκη; τῆς θήκης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ θήκη hē thḗkē	τὼ θήκᾱ tṑ thḗkā	αἱ θῆκαι hai thêkai
Genitive	τῆς θήκης tês thḗkēs	τοῖν θήκαιν toîn thḗkain	τῶν θηκῶν tôn thēkôn
Dative	τῇ θήκῃ têi thḗkēi	τοῖν θήκαιν toîn thḗkain	ταῖς θήκαις taîs thḗkais
Accusative	τὴν θήκην tḕn thḗkēn	τὼ θήκᾱ tṑ thḗkā	τᾱ̀ς θήκᾱς tā̀s thḗkās
Vocative	θήκη thḗkē	θήκᾱ thḗkā	θῆκαι thêkai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

-θήκη (-thḗkē) & compounds

Descendants

Greek: θήκη f (thíki, “case, sheath”)
→ Hebrew: תִּיק (tík, tīq)
→ Latin: thēca (see there for further descendants)
→ Serbo-Croatian: teka

Further reading

“θήκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“θήκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
θήκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
G2336 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- bin idem, page 79.
- box idem, page 92.
- cabinet idem, page 108.
- case idem, page 116.
- casket idem, page 116.
- chest idem, page 129.
- coffer idem, page 141.
- grave idem, page 371.
- safe idem, page 730.
- tomb idem, page 880.
- trunk idem, page 898.
“θήκη”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θήκη (thḗkē).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈθi.ci/

Noun

θήκη • (thíki) f (plural θήκες)

case, sheath, holster (close fitting cover or container for something)

Declension

declension of θήκη

case \ number	singular	plural
nominative	θήκη •	θήκες •
genitive	θήκης •	θηκών •
accusative	θήκη •	θήκες •
vocative	θήκη •	θήκες •

Related terms

-θήκη (-thíki)
θηκάρι n (thikári, “sheath”)

Further reading

θήκη - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.

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