θήρ

• φήρ (phḗr) — Aeolic

From Proto-Hellenic *kʷʰḗr, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwer-. Cognates include Latin ferus (“wild, savage”) and Old Church Slavonic звѣрь (zvěrĭ, “wild animal”).

θήρ • (thḗr) m or f (genitive θηρός); third declension

1. a wild beast, beast of prey, especially a lion
2. any animal
3. a fantastic animal, such as the Sphinx

• Originally masculine gender but later feminine.

• θηρίον (thēríon)

• Aeolic Greek: φήρ (phḗr)
• →? Svan: თხე̄რე (txēre, “wolf”), თხა̈̄რე (txǟre), თხერე (txere)

• “θήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “θήρ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• θήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• θήρ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “θήρ”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • animal idem, page 30.
  • beast idem, page 67.
  • brute idem, page 102.
  • creature idem, page 183.
  • monster idem, page 539.
• θήρ, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011