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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The formation is similar to ἄχθος (ákhthos), βρόχθος (brókhthos) and ὄχθος (ókhthos). According to Beekes, the variation "χθ/γ" must be Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mókʰ.tʰos/ → /ˈmox.θos/ → /ˈmox.θos/
Noun
μόχθος • (mókhthos) m (genitive μόχθου); second declension
- toil, trouble, hardship, distress, exertion
- Synonym: κόπος (kópos)
Inflection
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Descendants
Further reading
- “μόχθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μόχθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μόχθος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μόχθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
Noun
μόχθος • (móchthos) m (plural μόχθοι)
- toil, drudgery, hard work, labour(UK), labor(US)
Declension
Declension of μόχθος
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singular
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plural
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nominative
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μόχθος (móchthos)
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μόχθοι (móchthoi)
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genitive
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μόχθου (móchthou)
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μόχθων (móchthon)
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accusative
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μόχθο (móchtho)
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μόχθους (móchthous)
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vocative
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μόχθε (móchthe)
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μόχθοι (móchthoi)
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Synonyms
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