ἑκτικός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἕξις (héxis, “possession, condition”) +‎ -ικός (-ikós, “adjectival suffix”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hek.ti.kós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)ek.tiˈkos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ek.tiˈkos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ek.tiˈkos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ek.tiˈkos/

Adjective

ἑκτῐκός • (hektĭkós) m (feminine ἑκτῐκή, neuter ἑκτῐκόν); first/second declension

formed by or forming habit
easy, fluent
sustaining
capable of
hectic, consumptive

Declension

First and second declension of ἑκτῐκός; ἑκτῐκή; ἑκτῐκόν (Attic)

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ἑκτῐκός hektĭkós	ἑκτῐκή hektĭkḗ	ἑκτῐκόν hektĭkón	ἑκτῐκώ hektĭkṓ	ἑκτῐκᾱ́ hektĭkā́	ἑκτῐκώ hektĭkṓ	ἑκτῐκοί hektĭkoí	ἑκτῐκαί hektĭkaí	ἑκτῐκᾰ́ hektĭkắ
Genitive	ἑκτῐκοῦ hektĭkoû	ἑκτῐκῆς hektĭkês	ἑκτῐκοῦ hektĭkoû	ἑκτῐκοῖν hektĭkoîn	ἑκτῐκαῖν hektĭkaîn	ἑκτῐκοῖν hektĭkoîn	ἑκτῐκῶν hektĭkôn	ἑκτῐκῶν hektĭkôn	ἑκτῐκῶν hektĭkôn
Dative	ἑκτῐκῷ hektĭkōî	ἑκτῐκῇ hektĭkēî	ἑκτῐκῷ hektĭkōî	ἑκτῐκοῖν hektĭkoîn	ἑκτῐκαῖν hektĭkaîn	ἑκτῐκοῖν hektĭkoîn	ἑκτῐκοῖς hektĭkoîs	ἑκτῐκαῖς hektĭkaîs	ἑκτῐκοῖς hektĭkoîs
Accusative	ἑκτῐκόν hektĭkón	ἑκτῐκήν hektĭkḗn	ἑκτῐκόν hektĭkón	ἑκτῐκώ hektĭkṓ	ἑκτῐκᾱ́ hektĭkā́	ἑκτῐκώ hektĭkṓ	ἑκτῐκούς hektĭkoús	ἑκτῐκᾱ́ς hektĭkā́s	ἑκτῐκᾰ́ hektĭkắ
Vocative	ἑκτῐκέ hektĭké	ἑκτῐκή hektĭkḗ	ἑκτῐκόν hektĭkón	ἑκτῐκώ hektĭkṓ	ἑκτῐκᾱ́ hektĭkā́	ἑκτῐκώ hektĭkṓ	ἑκτῐκοί hektĭkoí	ἑκτῐκαί hektĭkaí	ἑκτῐκᾰ́ hektĭkắ
Derived forms	Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
Derived forms	ἑκτῐκῶς hektĭkôs			ἑκτῐκώτερος hektĭkṓteros			ἑκτῐκώτᾰτος hektĭkṓtătos
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ Late Latin: hecticus
- Old French: etique (“consumptive”)
  - → Middle English: etik
    - English: hectic (re-formed after the Latin and Greek)
  - French: étique, hectique
- →⇒ Czech: hektický
- →⇒ Finnish: hektinen
- →⇒ Italian: etico
- →⇒ German: hektisch
- →⇒ Norwegian Bokmål: hektisk
- →⇒ Norwegian Nynorsk: hektisk
- →⇒ Swedish: hektisk
→ Serbo-Croatian: jèktika
⇒ Byzantine Greek: ἑκτικιόν (hektikión)
- Greek: χτικιό (chtikió)
⇒ Byzantine Greek: ἑκτικιάζω (hektikiázō)
- Greek: χτικιάζω (chtikiázo)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἑκτικός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 398-9