Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Θρᾷττᾰ ‎(Thrâitta) Attic
• Θρῇσσᾰ ‎(Thrêissa) Tragic
• Θρήϊσσᾰ ‎(Thrḗïssa), Θρᾰ́ϊσσᾰ ‎(Thráïssa)
• Θρέϊσσᾰ ‎(Thréïssa) Ionic

Noun

Θρᾷσσᾰ • ‎(Thrâissa) f ‎(genitive Θρᾴσσης); first declension

1. female inhabitant of Thrace; Thracian woman, esp. Thracian slave-girl
   • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 174.a

     Θρᾷττά τις ἐμμελὴς καὶ χαρίεσσα θεραπαινὶς ἀποσκῶψαι

     and a neat, witty Thracian servant-girl jeered at him

Inflection

Related terms

• Θρᾴκη ‎(Thrā́ikē)
• Θρᾴκιος ‎(Thrā́ikios)
• Θρῇξ ‎(Thrêix)
• Θρῄκη ‎(Thrḗikē)
• Θρῄκιος ‎(Thrḗikios)
• Σαμοθρᾴκη ‎(Samothrā́ikē)
• Σαμόθρᾳξ ‎(Samóthrāix)

Descendants

• Greek: Θράσσα ‎(Thrássa)
• Latin: Thrēissa, Thressa

References

• Θρᾷσσα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Θρᾷσσα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, pages 1,027, 1,028