δοκός

From δέχομαι (dékhomai, “to accept, receive”) +‎ -ός (-ós).

δοκός • (dokós) m or f (genitive δοκοῦ); second declension

1. the main beam, especially in a house
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 22.176
   • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 1496
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.744
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.112
   1. beam
      • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 201
      • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 7:3–4
2. a type of meteor
   • 23 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Natural History 2.96
   • 490 CE – 600 CE, John the Lydian, De Ostentis 10B

• → Greek: δοκός (dokós) (learned)

• “δοκός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “δοκός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “δοκός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• δοκός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• δοκός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• δοκός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• G1385 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • beam idem, page 66.
  • board idem, page 86.
  • lath idem, page 478.
  • plank idem, page 617.
  • rafter idem, page 668.
  • spar idem, page 798.

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek δοκός (dokós).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ðoˈkos/
• Hyphenation: δο‧κός

δοκός • (dokós) f or m (plural δοκοί)

1. beam (horizontal component of a building, made of wood, concrete, etc.)
2. (sports) crossbar
3. (sports) goalpost
4. (gymnastics) beam

   Synonym: δοκός ισορροπίας f (dokós isorropías, “balance beam”)

• (horizontal component, crossbar, goalpost): δοκάρι n (dokári)