1. θρόος · throos — Beekes
θρόος ‘call, voice’. «VAR Att. θροῦς. = θρέομαι. — [Beekes, s.v. θρόος, p. 605]
The corpus record
θρόος
throos
call, voice
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Where it lives
- Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
- Machabaeorum I 1 · 0.57/10k
- History 5 · 0.33/10k
- Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
- Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
- Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant
2. θρόος · throos — Chantraine
θρόος, voir θρέομαι, θρυαλλίς, voir θρύον. — [Chantraine, s.v. θρόος, p. 457]
3. θρόος · throos — LSJ
noise
noise as of many voices, οὐ γὰρ πάντων ἦεν ὁμὸς θ. Il. 4.437; poet. of musical sounds, πολύφατος θ. ὕμνων Pi. N. 7.81; θ. αὐλῶν Epic. ap. Plu. QConv. 2.654f.
2 murmur
murmur of a crowd or assembly, Th. 4.66, 8.79, D.H. 6.57, etc.
II report, rumour
report, rumour, X. Cyr. 6.1.37, Plu. Galb. 26, D.C. 44.18.
In the wild
- θρόος · throos Iliad 4.437
- θροῦς · throus Septuaginta, Machabaeorum I 9
- θροῦς · throus Septuaginta, Sapientia Salomonis 1
- θροῦν · throun Thucydides, History 4.66.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2948)
- θροῦν · throun Thucydides, History 5.29.2 (DIORISIS sentence 3578)
- θροῦν · throun Thucydides, History 5.30.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3582)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. θρόος (scan p. 605; entry #2614).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. θρόος (scan p. 457; entry #3224).