θρόμβος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Compared with Icelandic drambr (“knag, knot”), however a direct connection is impossible (unless the proposed Miller's law is correct). The same holds with Lithuanian dramblys (“elephant”) and Latvian dramblis (“glutton”). Can also be compared with Albanian grumbull (“heap, pile”). Within Greek, the word is generally compared with τρέφω (tréphō, “to curdle”): since this verb does not have a convincing Indo-European etymology, the present word would be of Pre-Greek origin too.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰróm.bos/ → /ˈθrom.bos/ → /ˈθrom.bos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰróm.bos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰrom.bos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈθrom.bos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈθrom.bos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈθrom.bos/

Noun

θρόμβος • (thrómbos) m (genitive θρόμβου); second declension

1. piece, lump, clump
2. clot, gout of blood
3. curd of milk
4. coarse salt

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ θρόμβος; τοῦ θρόμβου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ θρόμβος ho thrómbos	τὼ θρόμβω tṑ thrómbō	οἱ θρόμβοι hoi thrómboi
Genitive	τοῦ θρόμβου toû thrómbou	τοῖν θρόμβοιν toîn thrómboin	τῶν θρόμβων tôn thrómbōn
Dative	τῷ θρόμβῳ tōî thrómbōi	τοῖν θρόμβοιν toîn thrómboin	τοῖς θρόμβοις toîs thrómbois
Accusative	τὸν θρόμβον tòn thrómbon	τὼ θρόμβω tṑ thrómbō	τοὺς θρόμβους toùs thrómbous
Vocative	θρόμβε thrómbe	θρόμβω thrómbō	θρόμβοι thrómboi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• θρομβεῖον (thrombeîon)
• θρομβοειδής (thromboeidḗs)
• θρομβόομαι (thrombóomai)
• θρομβώδης (thrombṓdēs)
• θρόμβωσῐς (thrómbōsĭs)

Descendants

• Greek: θρόμβος (thrómvos)
• → New Latin: thrombus

Further reading

• “θρόμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θρόμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θρόμβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G2361 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cake idem, page 108.
  • clot idem, page 139.
  • gout idem, page 367.
  • lump idem, page 504.
• 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

Greek

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek θρόμβος (thrómbos).

Noun

θρόμβος • (thrómvos) m (plural θρόμβοι)

1. blood clot, thrombus

Declension

Declension of θρόμβος

	singular	plural
nominative	θρόμβος (thrómvos)	θρόμβοι (thrómvoi)
genitive	θρόμβου (thrómvou)	θρόμβων (thrómvon)
accusative	θρόμβο (thrómvo)	θρόμβους (thrómvous)
vocative	θρόμβε (thrómve)	θρόμβοι (thrómvoi)

Related terms

• θρόμβωση f (thrómvosi, “thrombosis”)