Ancient Greek

Noun

θέρος • ‎(théros) n ‎(genitive θέρεος or θέρους); third declension

1. heat
2. summer
3. harvest, crop

Inflection

Derived terms

• θερινός ‎(therinós)

References

• θέρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• θέρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θέρος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «θέρος» 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
• «θέρος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• θέρος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G2330”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • crop idem, page 185.
  • harvest idem, page 387.

Greek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθe̞ro̞s/
• Hyphenation: θέ‧ρος

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek θέρος retaining the neuter gender

Noun

θέρος • ‎(théros) n ‎(uncountable)

1. harvest
2. summer, summertime

Declension

Synonyms

• καλοκαίρι n ‎(kalokaíri)

Coordinate terms

• άνοιξη f ‎(ánoixi, “spring”)
• έαρ f ‎(éar, “spring”)
• εποχή f ‎(epochí, “season”)
• καλοκαίρι n ‎(kalokaíri, “summer”)
• φθινόπωρο n ‎(fthinóporo, “autumn, fall”)
• χειμώνας m ‎(cheimónas, “winter”)

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek θέρος with change of gender to masculine

Noun

θέρος • ‎(théros) m ‎(uncountable)

1. harvest, vintage

Declension