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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, ultimately of Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mo.kʰlós/ → /moˈxlos/ → /moˈxlos/
Noun
μοχλός • (mokhlós) m (genitive μοχλοῦ); second declension
- lever, bar, crowbar
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “μοχλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μοχλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μοχλός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μοχλός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- μοχλός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Greek
Etymology
Inherited from Ancient Greek μοχλός (mokhlós).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /moˈxlos/
- Hyphenation: μο‧χλός
Noun
μοχλός • (mochlós) m (plural μοχλοί)
- lever
Declension
Further reading