# θαλάσσιος
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* θᾰλᾰ́ττῐος (thaláttios) — Attic, later

### Etymology

θᾰ́λᾰσσᾰ (thálassa, “sea”) +‎ -ῐος (-ios)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʰa.lás.si.os/ → /θaˈlas.si.os/ → /θaˈla.si.os/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /tʰa.lás.si.os/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /tʰaˈlas.si.os/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /θaˈlas.si.os/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /θaˈlas.si.os/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /θaˈla.si.os/

### Adjective

θᾰλᾰ́σσῐος • (thalássios) m (feminine θᾰλᾰσσῐ́ᾱ, neuter θᾰλᾰ́σσῐον); first/second declension θᾰλᾰ́σσῐος • (thalássios) m or f (neuter θᾰλᾰ́σσῐον); second declension
* of, in, on, or from the sea, marine, maritime
** into the sea
** sea-going
* (nautical) skilled in the sea, nautical
* like the sea

#### Descendants

* Greek: θαλάσσιος (thalássios)
* Mariupol Greek: тъаласи́ (θalasí)

### References

* “θαλάσσιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “θαλάσσιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “θαλάσσιος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* θαλάσσιος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* θαλάσσιος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “θαλάσσιος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* θαλάσσιος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. marine idem, page 514.nautical idem, page 552.sea idem, page 744.seafaring idem, page 746.watery idem, page 967.

## Greek
### Etymology

Learnedly, from Ancient Greek θαλάσσιος (thalássios, “marine”). By surface analysis, θάλασσ(α) (thálass(a), “sea”) +‎ -ιος (-ios, “indicating origin”).
Cognate with Mariupol Greek тъаласи́ (θalasí).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /θaˈla.si.os/
* Hyphenation: θα‧λάσ‧σι‧ος

### Adjective

θαλάσσιος • (thalássios) m (feminine θαλάσσια, neuter θαλάσσιο)
* relating to: sea, sailing, seaside
    θαλάσσια ανεμώνη ― thalássia anemóni ― sea anemone
* maritime, marine
    θαλάσσιο περιβάλλον ― thalássio perivállon ― marine environment

#### Declension

| number case \ gender | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural |
| number case \ gender | masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter |
| nominative | θαλάσσιος • | θαλάσσια • | θαλάσσιο • | θαλάσσιοι • | θαλάσσιες • | θαλάσσια • |
| genitive | θαλάσσιου • | θαλάσσιας • | θαλάσσιου • | θαλάσσιων • | θαλάσσιων • | θαλάσσιων • |
| accusative | θαλάσσιο • | θαλάσσια • | θαλάσσιο • | θαλάσσιους • | θαλάσσιες • | θαλάσσια • |
| vocative | θαλάσσιε • | θαλάσσια • | θαλάσσιο • | θαλάσσιοι • | θαλάσσιες • | θαλάσσια • |

#### Related terms

* θαλασσί n (thalassí)
and see: θάλασσα f (thálassa, “sea”)

### Further reading

* θαλάσσιος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language