ὠκύς

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁oh₁ḱús (“quick, swift”). Cognate with Sanskrit आशु (āśú) and Latin ocior, and possibly related to ἵππος (híppos, “horse”).

ὠκῠ́ς • (ōkús) m (feminine ὠκεῖᾰ, neuter ὠκῠ́); first/third declension

1. (chiefly poetic) fast, swift, quick
2. (with accusative of respect, in the epithet πόδας ὠκύς (pódas ōkús), referring to Achilles) swift of foot, swift-footed
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.84:

     Τὸν δ’ ἀπαμειβόμενος προσέφη πόδας ὠκὺς Ἀχιλλεύς·

     Tòn d’ apameibómenos proséphē pódas ōkùs Akhilleús;

     Answering him, swift-footed Achilles said to :

The feminine singular ὠκέᾰ (ōkéa) is used by Homer for metrical reasons, especially in the phrase (πόδας) ὠκέᾰ Ἶρῐς ((pódas) ōkéa Îris) (short–short—long–short–short—long–long), used at the end of a line, where ὠκεῖᾰ (ōkeîa) would yield an unmetrical short–short—long–long–short–long–long.

• ταχύς (takhús)

• ὀξύς (oxús)
• ἀκή (akḗ)
• ἀκμή (akmḗ)

• “ὠκύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὠκύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὠκύς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὠκύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὠκύς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ὠκύς”, 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.
  • fast idem, page 308.
  • fleet idem, page 327.
  • hasty idem, page 387.
  • nimble idem, page 558.
  • quick idem, page 665.
  • swift idem, page 848.