The corpus record

θύριον

thurion · τό

little door, wicket

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Where it lives

Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k

What it meant — LSJ

little door, wicket, the door

Dim. of θύρα, little door, wicket, Ar. Nu. 92, Th. 26, IG ΙΙ(2).154A 26 (Delos, iii B.C.), Plu. Cleom. 8, Alciphr. 3.30: metaph., τὸ τοῦ λόγου θ. παραβαλοῦ close the door of discourse, Plu. Fac.lun. 2.940f, cf. Sollert. 965b.

2 small sluice

small sluice, PLond. 3.1177.243 (ii A.D.).

In the wild

Θυρίων · Thyriōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.1 (DIORISIS sentence 202)
θύριον · thyrion Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.9 (DIORISIS sentence 1869)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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