The corpus record

θοῦρος

thouros

rushing, impetuous, furious

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Where it lives

Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
Iliad 11 · 0.99/10k

What it meant

1. θοῦρος · thouros — Beekes

θοῦρος [adj.] ‘rushing, impetuous, furious’ (IL). «1 *d*erh,- ‘jump, mount’> *DER θοῦρις, -ἰδος [f.] (Hom., H.), θουράς (Nic., Lyc.; cf. Chantraine 1933: 354f.); extended in θούριος ‘id.’ (trag.); also θουραῖος, θουρήεις et al. (H.); denominative ptc. θουρῶσαι [nom.pl.f.] ‘rushing towards’ (Lyc. 85), from θουράω + accus. *ETYM From *86p-Foc, either directly from the aorist θορεῖν or as a transformation of an u-stem … — [Beekes, s.v. θοῦρος, p. 599]

2. θοῦρος · thouros — LSJ

rushing, impetuous, furious, with which one rushes to the fight

rushing, impetuous, furious, Hom. (only in Il.), as epith. of Ares, 15.127, al. (of the planet Mars, Doroth. ap. Heph.Astr. 1.1); Τυφών A. Pr. 356, cf. Fr. 199; δόρυ E. Rh. 492; ἀνὴρ Γαλάτης Eleg.Alex.Adesp. 2.14:—fem. θοῦρις, ῐδος, ἡ, epith. of ἀλκή, Od. 4.527, Il. 7.164, al.; θ. ἀσπίς, prob. the shield with which one rushes to the fight, 11.32; αἰγίς 15.308.

In the wild

θοῦρον · thouron Aeschylus, Persians 135–139
θοῦρον · thouron Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 353–355
θοῦρον · thouron Euripides, Rhesus (DIORISIS sentence 278)
θοῦρος · thouros Euripides, Suppliants (DIORISIS sentence 337)
θοῦρον · thouron Iliad 15.127
θοῦρον · thouron Iliad 15.142

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. θοῦρος (scan p. 599; entry #2589).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. θοῦρος (scan p. 453; entry #3189).

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