στοχάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain, but suffixed with -άς (-ás). Compare with στοῖχος (stoîkhos, “row in an ascending series, column”), στίχος (stíkhos, “row or file of soldiers, line of poetry, verse”), from στείχω (steíkhō, “walk, march, go or come, march in line or order”), from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- (“to walk”). If from this root, cognate with German steigen; English sty, stair, stile; and possibly Latin vestīgō.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sto.kʰás/ → /stoˈxas/ → /stoˈxas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sto.kʰás/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /stoˈkʰas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /stoˈxas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /stoˈxas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /stoˈxas/

Noun

στοχάς • (stokhás) f (genitive στοχάδος); third declension

1. an erection of stone or wood for fixing net poles
2. (adjective) in a row
3. Synonym of στόχος (stókhos, “butt, target”)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ στοχᾰ́ς; τῆς στοχᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ στοχᾰ́ς hē stokhắs	τὼ στοχᾰ́δε tṑ stokhắde	αἱ στοχᾰ́δες hai stokhắdes
Genitive	τῆς στοχᾰ́δος tês stokhắdos	τοῖν στοχᾰ́δοιν toîn stokhắdoin	τῶν στοχᾰ́δων tôn stokhắdōn
Dative	τῇ στοχᾰ́δῐ têi stokhắdĭ	τοῖν στοχᾰ́δοιν toîn stokhắdoin	ταῖς στοχᾰ́σῐ / στοχᾰ́σῐν taîs stokhắsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν στοχᾰ́δᾰ tḕn stokhắdă	τὼ στοχᾰ́δε tṑ stokhắde	τᾱ̀ς στοχᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s stokhắdăs
Vocative	στοχᾰ́ς stokhắs	στοχᾰ́δε stokhắde	στοχᾰ́δες stokhắdes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Further reading

• “στοχάς”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “στοχάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press