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θάλασσα
θάλασσα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Noun
θᾰ́λᾰσσᾰ • (thálassa) f (genitive θᾰλᾰ́σσης); first declension
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural |
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Nominative | ἡ θᾰ́λᾰσσᾰ | τὼ θᾰλᾰ́σσᾱ | αἱ θᾰ́λᾰσσαι |
Genitive | τῆς θᾰλᾰ́σσης | τοῖν θᾰλᾰ́σσῃῐν?1 | τῶν θᾰλᾰσσᾱ́ων / θᾰλᾰέ͜ων |
Dative | τῇ θᾰλᾰ́σσῃ | τοῖν θᾰλᾰ́σσῃῐν?1 | ταῖς θᾰλᾰ́σσῃσῐ(ν) |
Accusative | τὴν θᾰ́λᾰσσᾰν | τὼ θᾰλᾰ́σσᾱ | τὰς θᾰλᾰ́σσᾱς |
Vocative | θᾰ́λᾰσσᾰ | θᾰλᾰ́σσᾱ | θᾰ́λᾰσσαι |
Notes: | 1Pharr reads θᾰλᾰ́ῃῐν whereas Smyth reads θᾰλᾰ́αι(ῐ)ν. |
Derived terms
Terms derived from θάλασσα (thálassa)
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Descendants
- English: thalasso-, Thalassa
- Greek: θάλασσα (thálassa)
- Latin: Thalassa
- Ottoman Turkish: [script needed] (talaz)
- Serbo-Croatian: talas
References
- θάλασσα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- θάλασσα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θάλασσα in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «θάλασσα» 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
- «θάλασσα» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- θάλασσα in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- “G2281”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- «θάλασσα» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Atlantic (sea) idem, page 1003.
- brine idem, page 99.
- deep idem, page 203.
- sea idem, page 744.
- water idem, page 967.
Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈθalasa]
Noun
θάλασσα • (thálassa) f (plural θάλασσες)
- sea
- Βαλτική Θάλασσα, Μεσόγειος Θάλασσα ― Valtikí Thálassa, Mesógeios Thálassa ― Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Sea
- sea (all the seas and oceans)
- Πήγε στη θάλασσα. ― Píge sti thálassa. ― He went to sea
- storm
- πολύ θάλασσα ― polý thálassa ― heavy seas, stormy weather
Usage notes
- ωκεανός m (okeanós, “ocean”) (e.g. Atlantic, Pacific)
- θάλασσα f (thálassa, “larger sea”) (e.g. Mediterranean, Baltic, Caribbean)
- πέλαγος m (pélagos, “smaller sea”) (e.g. Adriatic, Aegean, Ionian)
Declension
declension of θάλασσα
singular | plural | |
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nominative | θάλασσα | θάλασσες |
genitive | θάλασσας | θαλασσών |
accusative | θάλασσα | θάλασσες |
vocative | θάλασσα | θάλασσες |
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