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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *wókʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *wóǵʰos, from *weǵʰ- (“to move, drive”). Cognates include Mycenaean Greek 𐀺𐀏 (wo-ka /wokʰa/, “vehicle”), Sanskrit वाह (vā́ha), Old Church Slavonic возъ (vozŭ). Also see ὀχέω (okhéō, “to carry”) and Arcadocypriot Greek ϝέχω (wékhō, “to carry, bear”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ó.kʰos/ → /ˈo.xos/ → /ˈo.xos/
Noun
ὄχος • (ókhos) m (genitive ὄχου); second declension
- anything which holds, bears
- carriage, cart, chariot
- the wheels of a chariot
Usage notes
Homer uses neuter plural forms (ὄχεα (ókhea), ὀχέων (okhéōn), ὄχεσφι (ókhesphi)) (dative plural)), even for a single chariot.
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Further reading
- “ὄχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὄχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὄχος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὄχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ὄχος”, 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.
- 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