θρόος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms
  • θροῦς (throûs) – Attic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰreu-, the same root of θρέομαι (thréomai, “to shriek, proclaim”) and Old Armenian երդնում (erdnum, “to swear, take an oath”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

θρόος • (thróos) m (genitive θρόου); second declension

  1. noise, as of many voices
  2. murmur of a crowd
  3. report, rumour

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ θρόος; τοῦ θρόου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ θρόος
ho thróos		 τὼ θρόω
tṑ thróō		 οἱ θρόοι
hoi thróoi
Genitive τοῦ θρόου
toû thróou		 τοῖν θρόοιν
toîn thróoin		 τῶν θρόων
tôn thróōn
Dative τῷ θρόῳ
tôi thróōi		 τοῖν θρόοιν
toîn thróoin		 τοῖς θρόοις
toîs thróois
Accusative τὸν θρόον
tòn thróon		 τὼ θρόω
tṑ thróō		 τοὺς θρόους
toùs thróous
Vocative θρόε
thróe		 θρόω
thróō		 θρόοι
thróoi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

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