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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Possibly a cognate of Latin taxus or borrowed from Iranian: compare Persian تخش (taxš, “crossbow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tók.son/ → /ˈtok.son/ → /ˈtok.son/
Noun
τόξον • (tóxon) n (genitive τόξου); second declension
- bow (weapon for shooting arrows)
- rainbow
- arc
- anything which is bowed or arched
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
- Greek: τόξο n (tóxo, “bow”)
See also
References
- “τόξον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τόξον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τόξον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τόξον 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
- τόξον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “τόξον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5115 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.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1493