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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἕ (hé) + -κᾰ́ς (-kás), from Proto-Hellenic *hwe, from Proto-Indo-European *swé and one possible cognate seen in द्विशस् (dviśas, “two by two”). See also ἀνδρᾰκᾰ́ς (andrakás, “man by man”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /he.kás/ → /eˈkas/ → /eˈkas/
Adverb
ἑκᾰ́ς • (hekás)
- afar, far off
- long after
Derived terms
References
- “ἑκάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἑκάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἑκάς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἑκάς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ἑκάς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.