μοχλός
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, ultimately of Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mo.kʰlós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /moˈkʰlos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /moˈxlos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /moˈxlos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /moˈxlos/
Noun
μοχλός • (mokhlós) m (genitive μοχλοῦ); second declension
- lever, bar, crowbar
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.260–261:
- ἐν δ’ ὑπέρας τε κάλους τε πόδας τ’ ἐνέδησεν ἐν αὐτῇ,
μοχλοῖσιν δ’ ἄρα τήν γε κατείρυσεν εἰς ἅλα δῖαν.- en d’ hupéras te kálous te pódas t’ enédēsen en autêi,
mokhloîsin d’ ára tḗn ge kateírusen eis hála dîan.
- 1919 translation by Augustus Taber Murray
- And he made fast in the raft braces and halyards and sheets,
and then with levers forced it down into the bright sea.
- And he made fast in the raft braces and halyards and sheets,
- en d’ hupéras te kálous te pódas t’ enédēsen en autêi,
- ἐν δ’ ὑπέρας τε κάλους τε πόδας τ’ ἐνέδησεν ἐν αὐτῇ,
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ μοχλός ho mokhlós |
τὼ μοχλώ tṑ mokhlṓ |
οἱ μοχλοί hoi mokhloí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ μοχλοῦ toû mokhloû |
τοῖν μοχλοῖν toîn mokhloîn |
τῶν μοχλῶν tôn mokhlôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ μοχλῷ tôi mokhlôi |
τοῖν μοχλοῖν toîn mokhloîn |
τοῖς μοχλοῖς toîs mokhloîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν μοχλόν tòn mokhlón |
τὼ μοχλώ tṑ mokhlṓ |
τοὺς μοχλούς toùs mokhloús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μοχλέ mokhlé |
μοχλώ mokhlṓ |
μοχλοί mokhloí | ||||||||||
| Notes: |
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| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | μοχλός mokhlós |
μοχλώ mokhlṓ |
μοχλοί mokhloí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | μοχλοῦ / μοχλοῖο / μοχλόο mokhloû / mokhloîo / mokhlóo |
μοχλοῖῐν mokhloîĭn |
μοχλῶν mokhlôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | μοχλῷ mokhlôi |
μοχλοῖῐν mokhloîĭn |
μοχλοῖσῐ / μοχλοῖσῐν / μοχλοῖς mokhloîsĭ(n) / mokhloîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | μοχλόν mokhlón |
μοχλώ mokhlṓ |
μοχλούς mokhloús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μοχλέ mokhlé |
μοχλώ mokhlṓ |
μοχλοί mokhloí | ||||||||||
| Notes: |
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Derived terms
- μοχλεύω (mokhleúō)
- μοχλικός (mokhlikós)
- μοχλίον (mokhlíon)
- μοχλίσκος (mokhlískos)
- ὑπομόχλιον (hupomókhlion)
Descendants
- Greek: μοχλός (mochlós)
- → Arabic: مُحْل (muḥl), مُخْل (muḵl), مَحَال (maḥāl), مَحَالَة (maḥāla), مَخَال / مِخَال / مُخَال (maḵāl), مِيخَال (mīḵāl)
- → Coptic: ⲙⲟⲭⲗⲟⲥ (mokhlos)
- → Classical Syriac: ܡܘܟܠܐ (muḵlā)
- → Old Georgian: მოქლონი (mokloni)
- Georgian: მოქლონი (mokloni)
- ⇒ Translingual: Mochlonyx
Further reading
- “μοχλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μοχλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μοχλός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μοχλός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- μοχλός 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
Greek
Etymology
Inherited from Ancient Greek μοχλός (mokhlós).
Pronunciation
Noun
μοχλός • (mochlós) m (plural μοχλοί)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | μοχλός (mochlós) | μοχλοί (mochloí) |
| genitive | μοχλού (mochloú) | μοχλών (mochlón) |
| accusative | μοχλό (mochló) | μοχλούς (mochloús) |
| vocative | μοχλέ (mochlé) | μοχλοί (mochloí) |
Further reading
μοχλός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
