ὄχος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms
  • ὄκχος (ókkhos) – Poetic

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *wókʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *wóǵʰos, from *weǵʰ- (“to move, drive”). Cognates include Sanskrit वाह (vā́ha), Old Church Slavonic возъ (vozŭ). Also see ὀχέω (okhéō, “to carry”) and Arcadocypriot Greek ϝέχω (wékhō, “to carry, bear”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

ὄχος • (ókhos) m (genitive ὄχου); second declension

  1. anything which holds, bears
  2. carriage, cart, chariot
  3. the wheels of a chariot

Usage notes

Homer uses neuter plural forms (ὄχεα (ókhea), ὀχέων (okhéōn), ὄχεσφι (ókhesphi)) (dative plural)), even for a single chariot.

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ ὄχος; τοῦ ὄχου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ ὄχος
ho ókhos		 τὼ ὄχω
tṑ ókhō		 οἱ ὄχοι
hoi ókhoi
Genitive τοῦ ὄχου
toû ókhou		 τοῖν ὄχοιν
toîn ókhoin		 τῶν ὄχων
tôn ókhōn
Dative τῷ ὄχῳ
tôi ókhōi		 τοῖν ὄχοιν
toîn ókhoin		 τοῖς ὄχοις
toîs ókhois
Accusative τὸν ὄχον
tòn ókhon		 τὼ ὄχω
tṑ ókhō		 τοὺς ὄχους
toùs ókhous
Vocative ὄχε
ókhe		 ὄχω
ókhō		 ὄχοι
ókhoi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Further reading
  • ὄχος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ὄχος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ὄχος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • ὄχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • ὄχος 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, →ISBN
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