Ancient Greek

Noun

θής • ‎(thḗs) m ‎(genitive θητός); third declension

1. serf
2. bondsman
3. (later) hired laborer

Inflection

Related terms

• θῆσσα ‎(thêssa)
• θῆττα ‎(thêtta)

References

• θής in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• θής in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θής in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «θής» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «θής» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «θής» 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.
  • bondman idem, page 88.
  • hired servant idem, page 401.
  • labourer idem, page 473.
  • serf idem, page 754.
  • villein idem, page 952.