ὀχετός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ὀχέω (okhéō, “to carry”) + -τός (-tós).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /o.kʰe.tós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /o.kʰeˈtos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /o.çeˈtos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /o.çeˈtos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /o.çeˈtos/
Noun
ὀχετός • (okhetós) m (genitive ὀχετοῦ); second declension
- waterpipe, conduit, channel, aqueduct
- (anatomy) duct leading to the lung
- (in the plural) streams, currents
- (figuratively) means of escape
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ὀχετός ho okhetós |
τὼ ὀχετώ tṑ okhetṓ |
οἱ ὀχετοί hoi okhetoí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ὀχετοῦ toû okhetoû |
τοῖν ὀχετοῖν toîn okhetoîn |
τῶν ὀχετῶν tôn okhetôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ὀχετῷ tōî okhetōî |
τοῖν ὀχετοῖν toîn okhetoîn |
τοῖς ὀχετοῖς toîs okhetoîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ὀχετόν tòn okhetón |
τὼ ὀχετώ tṑ okhetṓ |
τοὺς ὀχετούς toùs okhetoús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ὀχετέ okheté |
ὀχετώ okhetṓ |
ὀχετοί okhetoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ὀχετάριος (okhetários)
- ὀχετεία (okheteía)
- ὀχέτευμα (okhéteuma)
- ὀχετεύω (okheteúō)
- ὀχετηγέω (okhetēgéō)
- ὀχετηγία (okhetēgía)
- ὀχετηγός (okhetēgós)
- ὀχέτιον (okhétion)
- ὀχετόκρᾱνον (okhetókrānon)
Further reading
- “ὀχετός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὀχετός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὀχετός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette