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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, perhaps from Pre-Greek and related to διώκω (diṓkō, “to cause to run”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i.ɔː.kɛ̌ː/ → /i.oˈci/ → /i.oˈci/
Noun
ἰωκή • (iōkḗ) f (genitive ἰωκῆς); first declension
- rout, pursuit
Inflection
Derived terms
Further reading
- “ἰωκή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἰωκή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἰωκή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἰωκή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἰωκή 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