• φήρ(phḗr) —Aeolic

FromProto-Hellenic*kʷʰḗr, fromProto-Indo-European*ǵʰwer-. Cognates includeLatinferus(“wild, savage”) andOld Church Slavonicзвѣрь(zvěrĭ,“wild animal”).

θήρ• (thḗr) m orf (genitiveθηρός);third declension

1. a wildbeast, beast of prey, especially alion
2. anyanimal
3. afantastic animal, such as theSphinx

• Originally masculine gender but later feminine.

• θηρίον(thēríon)

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

• “θήρ”, inLiddell & Scott (1940)A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θήρ”, inLiddell & Scott (1889)An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “θήρ”, inAutenrieth, Georg (1891)A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• θήρ inBailly, 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 inCunliffe, Richard J. (1924)A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published1963
• “θήρ”, inSlater, 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

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