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θύραν (thyran)

θύραν is an Ancient Greek form of θύρα, meaning “door”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 162 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 10.14: τοιγάρτοι πρὸ θυρᾶν μοι ἀπὸ σπόρω ἄσκαλα πάντα.

Euripides, Cyclops 502: στρυχον, αὐδᾷ δέ· Θύραν τίς οἴξει μοι;

Plutarch, Alcibiades 8.1: … αὶ συναγανακτούντων, ὥσπερ εἰκός, ἁπάντων, ἅμʼ ἡμέρᾳ παρῆν ὁ Ἀλκιβιάδης ἐπὶ τὴν οἰκίαν τοῦ Ἱππονίκου, καὶ τὴν θύραν κόψας εἰσῆλθε πρὸς αὐτὸν καὶ θεὶς τὸ ἱμάτιον παρεδίδου τὸ σῶμα, μαστιγοῦν καὶ κολάζειν κελεύων.

All forms of θύρα (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.