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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰrogʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to run, drag, pull”), whence τρέχω (trékhō, “I run”).[1] Cognates include Old Irish droch (“wheel, circlet”) and Old Armenian դուրգն (durgn, “potter's wheel”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tro.kʰós/ → /troˈxos/ → /troˈxos/
Noun
τροχός • (trokhós) m (genitive τροχοῦ); second declension
- wheel
- hoop, ring
- island
- perimeter
- running course
- race
- runner
- badger
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Further reading
- “τροχός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τροχός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τροχός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τροχός 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
- τροχός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “τροχός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5164 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Etymology
Inherited from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós) (in some senses, such as potter's wheel; in the general sense, it may have been a later learned borrowing).
Noun
τροχός • (trochós) m (plural τροχοί)
- wheel
- potter's wheel
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