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Definition of Thematic vowel
1. Noun. A vowel that ends a stem and precedes an inflection.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thematic Vowel
Literary usage of Thematic vowel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"thematic vowel. — Some tense-stems end in a vowel which varies between о and
e (or <в and т?) in certain forms. This is called the thematic (or variable) ..."
2. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness (1886)
"By adding a thematic vowel and inserting n—changed to m before a labial, ...
1 This thematic vowel, originally a, is generally weakened to 6 or i: reff-e-re ..."
3. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough (1916)
"Verbs which form the present stem by means of the suffix y%"> which already
contained the thematic vowel %. —Verbs of this class in which any vowel (except ..."
4. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough, Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1903)
"Verbs which preserve the thematic vowel e or o (in Latin i or u) before the
personal endings. — These make up the Third Conjugation. ..."
5. A Greek Grammar for Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1920)
"In the со inflection the tense-stem ends in the thematic vowel. To this form
belong all futures, and the presents, imperfects, and second aorists showing ..."
6. A Short Manual of Comparative Philology for Classical Students by Peter Giles (1901)
"Latin throughout shows much less variety than Greek. 480. I. The person suffixes
are added to the root with or without a thematic vowel. ..."
7. A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect by David Binning Monro (1882)
"We shall call this the thematic vowel,* and the Stems which contain it Thematic
Stems. ... That it is distinct from the thematic vowel is well shown by ..."
8. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough, Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1903)
"Thematic Verbs, in which a so-called thematic vowel (%, in Latin ... Verbs which
preserve the thematic vowel e or o (in Latin i or u) before the personal ..."
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