Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /θyreós/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θyreós/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θiɾeós/

Noun

θυρεός • ‎(thureós) m ‎(genitive θυρεοῦ); second declension

1. a stone put against a door to keep it shut, a door-stone
2. a wide oblong shield (like a door), opp. to ἀσπίς ‎(aspís, “the round shield”) (as Lat. scūtum to clipeus)
3. disk forming part of καθετήρ ‎(kathetḗr)
4. (mathematics) oval

Inflection

Descendants

• French: thyroïde
  • English: thyroid
• Greek: θυρεός ‎(thyreós, “coat of arms”)
• Hebrew: תְּרִיס ‎(tris, “shutter”)

References

• θυρεός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• θυρεός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θυρεός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «θυρεός» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «θυρεός» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G2375”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979

Greek

Noun

θυρεός • ‎(thyreós) m ‎(plural θυρεοί)

1. (heraldry) coat of arms, escutcheon

Declension

External links

• Θυρεός της Αυστρίας on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el (for example)