βρόχθος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from the same Pre-Greek root of βρόζαι (brózai) and βρόγχος (brónkhos). Compare also English craw (though Beekes expresses skepticism at a relation).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /brókʰ.tʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbrokʰ.tʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβrox.θos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvrox.θos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvrox.θos/
Noun
βρόχθος • (brókhthos) m (genitive βρόχθου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ βρόχθος ho brókhthos |
τὼ βρόχθω tṑ brókhthō |
οἱ βρόχθοι hoi brókhthoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ βρόχθου toû brókhthou |
τοῖν βρόχθοιν toîn brókhthoin |
τῶν βρόχθων tôn brókhthōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ βρόχθῳ tōî brókhthōi |
τοῖν βρόχθοιν toîn brókhthoin |
τοῖς βρόχθοις toîs brókhthois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν βρόχθον tòn brókhthon |
τὼ βρόχθω tṑ brókhthō |
τοὺς βρόχθους toùs brókhthous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | βρόχθε brókhthe |
βρόχθω brókhthō |
βρόχθοι brókhthoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- βροχθίζω (brokhthízō)
- βροχθισμός (brokhthismós)
- βροχθώδης (brokhthṓdēs)
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βρόξαι (> DER > βρόχθος)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 242
Further reading
- “βρόχθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βρόχθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βρόχθος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- βρόχθος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011