θώραξ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably a Pre-Greek substrate loan, hinted by the suffix -αξ-.
Cognate with θύραξ (thúrax), Mycenaean Greek 𐀵𐀨𐀐 (to-ra-ke), and possibly Latin lorico.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰɔ̌ː.raːks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtʰo.raks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈθo.raks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈθo.raks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈθo.raks/
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ θώρᾱξ ho thṓrāx |
τὼ θώρᾱκε tṑ thṓrāke |
οἱ θώρᾱκες hoi thṓrākes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ θώρᾱκος toû thṓrākos |
τοῖν θωρᾱ́κοιν toîn thōrā́koin |
τῶν θωρᾱ́κων tôn thōrā́kōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ θώρᾱκῐ tôi thṓrāki |
τοῖν θωρᾱ́κοιν toîn thōrā́koin |
τοῖς θώρᾱξῐ / θώρᾱξῐν toîs thṓrāxi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν θώρᾱκᾰ tòn thṓrāka |
τὼ θώρᾱκε tṑ thṓrāke |
τοὺς θώρᾱκᾰς toùs thṓrākas | ||||||||||
Vocative | θώρᾱξ thṓrāx |
θώρᾱκε thṓrāke |
θώρᾱκες thṓrākes | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- θώραξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- θώραξ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θώραξ 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
- θώραξ in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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
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