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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ὀχέω (okhéō, “to hold; endure”) + -μα (-ma).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ó.kʰɛː.ma/ → /ˈo.çi.ma/ → /ˈo.çi.ma/
Noun
ὄχημᾰ • (ókhēma) n (genitive ὀχήμᾰτος); third declension
- anything that bears or supports, prop, stay
- carriage, chariot, especially the mule-car
- animal which is ridden, like a horse
- (figuratively) vehicle, raft
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Further reading
- “ὄχημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὄχημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὄχημα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ὄχημα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011