μόχθος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- μόγος (mógos)
Etymology
The formation is similar to ἄχθος (ákhthos), βρόχθος (brókhthos) and ὄχθος (ókhthos). According to Beekes, the variation "χθ/γ" must be Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mókʰ.tʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmokʰ.tʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmox.θos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmox.θos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmox.θos/
Noun
μόχθος • (mókhthos) m (genitive μόχθου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ μόχθος ho mókhthos |
τὼ μόχθω tṑ mókhthō |
οἱ μόχθοι hoi mókhthoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ μόχθου toû mókhthou |
τοῖν μόχθοιν toîn mókhthoin |
τῶν μόχθων tôn mókhthōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ μόχθῳ tōî mókhthōi |
τοῖν μόχθοιν toîn mókhthoin |
τοῖς μόχθοις toîs mókhthois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν μόχθον tòn mókhthon |
τὼ μόχθω tṑ mókhthō |
τοὺς μόχθους toùs mókhthous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μόχθε mókhthe |
μόχθω mókhthō |
μόχθοι mókhthoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
Descendants
- Greek: μόχθος (móchthos)
Further reading
- “μόχθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μόχθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μόχθος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μόχθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Greek
Noun
μόχθος • (móchthos) m (plural μόχθοι)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | μόχθος (móchthos) | μόχθοι (móchthoi) |
| genitive | μόχθου (móchthou) | μόχθων (móchthon) |
| accusative | μόχθο (móchtho) | μόχθους (móchthous) |
| vocative | μόχθε (móchthe) | μόχθοι (móchthoi) |