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|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[inside room at the back of a house]] (as opposed to [[μέγαρον]], [[δῶμα]]), as room for women and sleepingroom, also as room for [[provision]]s (Il.; on the meaning Wace JournofHellStud. 71, 203ff.), in mariners' language the lowest [[deck]] of a [[ship]] (Timae., Poll.).<br />Compounds: As 1. member e. g. in [[θαλαμηπόλος]] f., late m. lady's [[maid]], lady's [[servant]]; [[eunuch]] (Od.; -η- rhythmically conditioned, Schwyzer 438f.). - [[θαλάμη]] f. [[lair]], [[den]], [[cavity]] of the [[body]] (ε 432, E., Hp., Arist.), as nautical term = [[θάλαμος]] (Luc.): on [[θάλαμος]] -μη Porzig Satzinhalte 284.<br />Derivatives: [[θαλαμιά]] [[rower]]s [[shutter]] on the [[lowest]] [[deck]] of the [[ship]] (Hdt. 5, 33), also the [[oar]] at this [[deck]] (Ar. Ach. 533, inscr.); cf. Scheller Oxytonierung 129, on the meaning Morrison Class. Quart. 41, 125ff.; with [[θαλαμίας]] m. the [[rower]] in the θάλαμος or in the [[θαλαμιά]] (Th. 4, 32, App., Them.), with this meaning also [[θαλάμαξ]] (Ar. Ra. 1074; Schwyzer 497, Chantraine Formation 381) and [[θαλαμίτης]] (sch. ad loc.). From [[θάλαμος]] still the rare [[θαλαμήϊος]] (Hes. Op. 807, A. R.), [[θαλαμαῖος]] (Ph.), [[θαλαμίς]] (An. Ox.) and the denominative [[θαλαμεύομαι]], [[θαλαμεύω]] being brought into the [[θάλαμος]], [[take as wife]] (Ph., Hld. u. a.) with [[θαλαμεύτρια]] = [[νυμφεύτρια]] (Poll.); [[θαλάμευμα]] = [[θάλαμος]] E. Ba. 120 (lyr.), cf. Chantraine Formation 185; [[θαλαμευτός]] (Tim. Pers. 245).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: reminds of [[θόλος]] (s. v.), further unknown; Pre-Greek origin is quite possible. Acc. to E. Maaß RhM 77, 1ff. also to [[θάλος]], [[θαλλός]]; well-founded doubts in Wahrmann Glotta 19, 213. Pelasgian etymology in v. Windekens Le Pélasgique 88f.; diff. Haas Jb. f. kleinas. Forsch. 3, 129ff. - [Not to [[ὀφθαλμός]], s. v.]- The structure of the word (CαC-αC-) is typically Pre-Greek; it can be cognate with [[θόλος]] (Fur. 342).