τυρός

See also: Τύρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *tūrós (whence also Mycenaean Greek 𐀶𐀫 (tu-ro /⁠tūrós⁠/)), from Proto-Indo-European *tuh₂-ró-s, from *tewh₂- (“to swell”), from the same root as *tewH-k- (Lithuanian táukas (“fat”), Old English þēoh (“thigh”)), *tewH-m- (Latin tumeō, Old English þuma (“thumb”)), etc.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

τῡρός • (tūrós) m (genitive τῡροῦ); second declension

  1. cheese

Declension
Second declension of ὁ τῡρός; τοῦ τῡροῦ (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ τῡρός
ho tūrós		 τὼ τῡρώ
tṑ tūrṓ		 οἱ τῡροί
hoi tūroí
Genitive τοῦ τῡροῦ
toû tūroû		 τοῖν τῡροῖν
toîn tūroîn		 τῶν τῡρῶν
tôn tūrôn
Dative τῷ τῡρῷ
tôi tūrôi		 τοῖν τῡροῖν
toîn tūroîn		 τοῖς τῡροῖς
toîs tūroîs
Accusative τὸν τῡρόν
tòn tūrón		 τὼ τῡρώ
tṑ tūrṓ		 τοὺς τῡρούς
toùs tūroús
Vocative τῡρέ
tūré		 τῡρώ
tūrṓ		 τῡροί
tūroí
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants

(from diminutive τυρίον (turíon))

  • Byzantine Greek: τυρίν (turín)
    • Greek: τυρί (tyrí)
    • Mariupol Greek: тыри́ (tyrí)

Further reading
  • “τυρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “τυρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “τυρός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • τυρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • τυρός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 129
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