μοιχός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Possibly an -ός (-ós) agent noun of ὀμείχω (omeíkhō, “I urinate”), used as a vulgar expression.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /moi̯.kʰós/ → /myˈxos/ → /miˈxos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /moi̯.kʰós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /myˈkʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /myˈxos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /myˈxos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /miˈxos/

Noun

μοιχός • (moikhós) m (genitive μοιχοῦ); second declension

1. adulterer, paramour

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μοιχός; τοῦ μοιχοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μοιχός ho moikhós	τὼ μοιχώ tṑ moikhṓ	οἱ μοιχοί hoi moikhoí
Genitive	τοῦ μοιχοῦ toû moikhoû	τοῖν μοιχοῖν toîn moikhoîn	τῶν μοιχῶν tôn moikhôn
Dative	τῷ μοιχῷ tôi moikhôi	τοῖν μοιχοῖν toîn moikhoîn	τοῖς μοιχοῖς toîs moikhoîs
Accusative	τὸν μοιχόν tòn moikhón	τὼ μοιχώ tṑ moikhṓ	τοὺς μοιχούς toùs moikhoús
Vocative	μοιχέ moikhé	μοιχώ moikhṓ	μοιχοί moikhoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: moechus

References

• 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

Further reading

• “μοιχός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μοιχός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μοιχός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G3432 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • adulterer idem, page 13.