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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From δέχομαι (dékhomai) + -ή (-ḗ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /do.kʰɛ̌ː/ → /ðoˈçi/ → /ðoˈçi/
Noun
δοχή • (dokhḗ) f (genitive δοχῆς); first declension
- receptacle
- reception, feast
50 CE – 100 CE,
The Gospel of Luke 14:13:
- ἀλλ᾽ ὅταν ποιῇς δοχὴν κάλει πτωχούς ἀναπήρους, χωλούς τυφλούς
- But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind (KJV)
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Latin: doga (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- δοχή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- δοχή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “δοχή”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- “δοχή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- δοχή in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- G1403 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.