στάχυς

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *ste(n)gʰ- (“to stick”), cognate with Proto-Germanic *stinganą, Lithuanian stangus (“fixed, stiff”), Latvian stingt (“to harden”). However, the variant ἄσταχυς (ástakhus) could also suggest a Pre-Greek origin; compare στόνυξ (stónux, “sharp point”) and στόχος (stókhos, “erection of stone”).

(Homeric)

(later poetry)

στᾰ́χῡς or στᾰ́χῠς • (stákhūs or stákhus) m (genitive στᾰ́χῠος); third declension

1. An ear of grain
2. scion, progeny
3. Spica, a star in the constellation Virgo
4. lower part of the abdomen
5. base horehound (Stachys germanica)
6. surgical bandage
7. shibboleth

• Translingual: Stachys

• “στάχυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• στάχυς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• στάχυς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G4719 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.
  • corn idem, page 174.
  • crop idem, page 185.
  • fruit idem, page 347.
  • harvest idem, page 387.
  • standing idem, page 811.
• 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