πρωκτός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *preHḱt-, *proHḱt-; cognate with Old Armenian երաստան (erastan, “buttocks”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /prɔːk.tós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /prokˈtos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /prokˈtos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /prokˈtos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /prokˈtos/
Noun
πρωκτός • (prōktós) m (genitive πρωκτού); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ πρωκτός ho prōktós |
τὼ πρωκτώ tṑ prōktṓ |
οἱ πρωκτοί hoi prōktoí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ πρωκτοῦ toû prōktoû |
τοῖν πρωκτοῖν toîn prōktoîn |
τῶν πρωκτῶν tôn prōktôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ πρωκτῷ tōî prōktōî |
τοῖν πρωκτοῖν toîn prōktoîn |
τοῖς πρωκτοῖς toîs prōktoîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν πρωκτόν tòn prōktón |
τὼ πρωκτώ tṑ prōktṓ |
τοὺς πρωκτούς toùs prōktoús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πρωκτέ prōkté |
πρωκτώ prōktṓ |
πρωκτοί prōktoí | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Greek: πρωκτός (proktós)
- ⇒ English: proctodeum
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πρωκτός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1244
Further reading
- “πρωκτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πρωκτός, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πρωκτός (prōktós).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /proˈktos/
- Hyphenation: πρω‧κτός
Noun
πρωκτός • (proktós) m (plural πρωκτοί)
- (anatomy) anus
- Δυστυχώς, οι εξετάσεις δείχνουν ότι πάσχετε από καρκίνο του πρωκτού.
- Dystychós, oi exetáseis deíchnoun óti páschete apó karkíno tou proktoú.
- Unfortunately, the tests show that you are suffering from cancer of the anus.
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | πρωκτός (proktós) | πρωκτοί (proktoí) |
| genitive | πρωκτού (proktoú) | πρωκτών (proktón) |
| accusative | πρωκτό (proktó) | πρωκτούς (proktoús) |
| vocative | πρωκτέ (prokté) | πρωκτοί (proktoí) |
Synonyms
- κώλος m (kólos, “bum, butt”) (colloquial)
- κωλοτρυπίδα f (kolotrypída, “arsehole, asshole”) (vulgar)
- ποπός m (popós, “bum, butt”) (colloquial, childish)
- πυγή f (pygí, “anus”)
Derived terms
- πρωκτικός (proktikós, “anal”)
Related terms
Further reading
- πρωκτός, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
- πρωκτός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el