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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From τίκτω (tíktō, “I beget”).
The "oppression" sense is a semantic loan from Hebrew תּוֹך (tóch).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tó.kos/ → /ˈto.kos/ → /ˈto.kos/
Noun
τόκος • (tókos) m (genitive τόκου); second declension
- childbirth, parturition
- offspring
- interest (of money)
- oppression
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “τόκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τόκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τόκος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τόκος 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
- τόκος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “τόκος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5110 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.
- bearing idem, page 67.
- birth idem, page 79.
- childbed idem, page 129.
- interest idem, page 450.
- labour idem, page 472.
- offspring idem, page 571.
- parturition idem, page 595.
- progeny idem, page 653.
- son idem, page 793.
- travail idem, page 890.
- usury idem, page 941.
- young idem, page 997.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τόκος (tókos).
Noun
τόκος • (tókos) m (plural τόκοι)
- (finance) interest (charge made for credit)
- (finance) interest rate
Declension
- ανατοκίζω (anatokízo, “to capitalise interest”)
- ανατοκισμός m (anatokismós, “compound interest”)
- άτοκος (átokos, “interest-free”)
- επιτόκιο n (epitókio, “interest rate”)
- τοκίζω (tokízo, “to lend money with interest”)
- τοκισμός m (tokismós, “lending money with interest”)
- τοκιστής m (tokistís, “moneylender”)
- τοκογλυφία f (tokoglyfía, “usury”)
- τοκογλύφος m or f (tokoglýfos, “loan shark”)
- τοκολόγιο n (tokológio, “table of interest”)
- τοκομερίδιο n (tokomerídio, “dividend”)
- τοκοφόρος (tokofóros, “bearing interest”)
- τοκοχρεωλύσιο n (tokochreolýsio, “annuity”)
Further reading