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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *tóikʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, form, fashion”). Compare τεῖχος (teîkhos), which it appears to be variant of.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tôi̯.kʰos/ → /ˈty.xos/ → /ˈti.xos/
Noun
τοῖχος • (toîkhos) m (genitive τοίχου); second declension
- wall (inside a building), partition
- the side of a ship
Inflection
Descendants
References
Further reading
- “τοῖχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τοῖχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τοῖχος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τοῖχος 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
- τοῖχος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “τοῖχος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5038 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.
- side idem, page 772.
- wall idem, page 960.
- “τοῖχος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011