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Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hór.ki.on/ → /ˈor.ci.on/ → /ˈor.ci.on/
Noun
ὅρκῐον • (hórkion) n (genitive ὁρκίου); second declension
- oath
- Synonym: ὅρκος (hórkos)
- pledge, surety
- treaty
- victim sacrificed to mark the settlement of an oath or treaty
Declension
Adjective
ὅρκῐον • (hórkion)
- inflection of ὅρκῐος (hórkios):
- accusative singular masculine
- nominative/accusative/vocative singular neuter
Further reading
- ὅρκιον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ὅρκιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.