τεῖχος

See also: τείχος

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Hellenic *téikʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, form, fashion”).^[1]

Cognates include Sanskrit देह (deha), Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬰𐬀 (daēza, “wall”), Latin fingō, and Old Armenian դէզ (dēz). Compare τοῖχος (toîkhos) and παράδεισος (parádeisos).

τεῖχος • (teîkhos) n (genitive τείχεος or τείχους); third declension

mound, earth works
wall (especially one enclosing a town or city)
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 227a
fortified city
fortification, castle

Third declension of τὸ τεῖχος; τοῦ τείχους (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ τεῖχος tò teîkhos	τὼ τείχει tṑ teíkhei	τᾰ̀ τείχη tằ teíkhē
Genitive	τοῦ τείχους toû teíkhous	τοῖν τειχοῖν toîn teikhoîn	τῶν τειχῶν tôn teikhôn
Dative	τῷ τείχει tōî teíkhei	τοῖν τειχοῖν toîn teikhoîn	τοῖς τείχεσῐ / τείχεσῐν toîs teíkhesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ τεῖχος tò teîkhos	τὼ τείχει tṑ teíkhei	τᾰ̀ τείχη tằ teíkhē
Vocative	τεῖχος teîkhos	τείχει teíkhei	τείχη teíkhē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of τεῖχος; τείχεος (Epic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τεῖχος teîkhos	τείχει / τείχεε teíkhei / teíkhee	τείχεᾰ teíkheă
Genitive	τείχεος / τείχευς teíkheos / teíkheus	τειχέοιν teikhéoin	τειχέων teikhéōn
Dative	τείχει / τείχεῐ̈ teíkhei / teíkheĭ̈	τειχέοιν teikhéoin	τείχεσῐ / τείχεσῐν teíkhesĭ(n)
Accusative	τεῖχος teîkhos	τείχει / τείχεε teíkhei / teíkhee	τείχεᾰ teíkheă
Vocative	τεῖχος teîkhos	τείχει / τείχεε teíkhei / teíkhee	τείχεᾰ teíkheă
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

^ 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, pages 1458-9

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“τεῖχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“τεῖχος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
τεῖχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
τεῖχος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“τεῖχος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G5038 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.
- bulwark idem, page 103.
- defence idem, page 204.
- entrenchment idem, page 278.
- fort idem, page 339.
- rampart idem, page 670.
- wall idem, page 960.