Τύρου (Tyrou)

Τύρου is an Ancient Greek form of τυρός, meaning “cheese”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 54 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.prol.7: … τιβὰς δὲ εὐνή, καὶ λάχανον τροφή, τυρός τε καὶ ἄρτος εὐτελής, καὶ κάλαμος ἡ βακτηρία, ᾧ κεντοῦντες, φασί, τοῦ τυροῦ ἀνῃροῦντο καὶ ἀπήσθιον.

Plutarch, Alexander 24.2: … όκει κρατύνεσθαι τὰ πρὸς θαλάσσῃ. Κύπρον μὲν οὖν εὐθὺς οἱ βασιλεῖς ἧκον ἐγχειρίζοντες αὐτῷ, καὶ Φοινίκην πλὴν Τύρου.

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 2.13: … ῦ παραδραμ(??)ν εἰς ἀσέβειαν, καὶ ὑπὸ τῆς γυναικὸς Ἰεζάβελ μᾶλλον εἰς κακίαν προβιβασθείς, ἣ τοῦ βασιλέως μὲν Τυροῦ καὶ Σιδῶνος θυγάτηρ ἠν, ἰταμὸν δὲ καὶ τολμηρὸν γύναιον. αὕτη ναὸν οἰκείῳ θεῷ Βὴλ ἐδομήσατο καὶ ἄλσος ἐφύτευσε …

All forms of τυρός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.