θύμαλλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The word has been connected with θύμον (thúmon, “thyme”), because of its scent. However, as the suffix -αλλος is Pre-Greek, it is improbable that the basic word was of inner-Greek formation.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰý.mal.los/ → /ˈθy.mal.los/ → /ˈθi.ma.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰý.mal.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰy.mal.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈθy.mal.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈθy.mal.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈθi.ma.los/

Noun

θῠ́μᾰλλος • (thúmallos) m (genitive θῠμᾰ́λλου); second declension

1. unknown kind of fish, perhaps the grayling

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ θῠ́μᾰλλος; τοῦ θῠμᾰ́λλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ θῠ́μᾰλλος ho thúmallos	τὼ θῠμᾰ́λλω tṑ thumállō	οἱ θῠ́μᾰλλοι hoi thúmalloi
Genitive	τοῦ θῠμᾰ́λλου toû thumállou	τοῖν θῠμᾰ́λλοιν toîn thumálloin	τῶν θῠμᾰ́λλων tôn thumállōn
Dative	τῷ θῠμᾰ́λλῳ tôi thumállōi	τοῖν θῠμᾰ́λλοιν toîn thumálloin	τοῖς θῠμᾰ́λλοις toîs thumállois
Accusative	τὸν θῠ́μᾰλλον tòn thúmallon	τὼ θῠμᾰ́λλω tṑ thumállō	τοὺς θῠμᾰ́λλους toùs thumállous
Vocative	θῠ́μᾰλλε thúmalle	θῠμᾰ́λλω thumállō	θῠ́μᾰλλοι thúmalloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Italian: temolo
• → Translingual: Thymallus

Further reading

• “θύμαλλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• θύμαλλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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