diadochos

Borrowed from Ancient Greek διάδοχος (diádokhos, “successor, substitute”), from δια- (dia-, “through”) + δοχός (dokhós, “containing, able to hold; a receptacle”) from δέχομαι (dékhomai, “I take, receive”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [diˈa.dɔ.kʰɔs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪iˈaː.d̪o.kos]

diadochos m (genitive diadochī); second declension

1. A precious stone resembling the beryl

Second-declension noun (Greek-type).

• “diadochos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• diadochos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.