τοῖχος

See also: τοίχος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *tóikʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, form, fashion”). Compare τεῖχος (teîkhos), which it appears to be variant of.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tôi̯.kʰos/ → /ˈty.xos/ → /ˈti.xos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tôi̯.kʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈty.kʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈty.xos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈty.xos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈti.xos/

Noun

τοῖχος • (toîkhos) m (genitive τοίχου); second declension

1. wall (inside a building), partition
2. the side of a ship

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ τοῖχος; τοῦ τοίχου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ τοῖχος ho toîkhos	τὼ τοίχω tṑ toíkhō	οἱ τοῖχοι hoi toîkhoi
Genitive	τοῦ τοίχου toû toíkhou	τοῖν τοίχοιν toîn toíkhoin	τῶν τοίχων tôn toíkhōn
Dative	τῷ τοίχῳ tôi toíkhōi	τοῖν τοίχοιν toîn toíkhoin	τοῖς τοίχοις toîs toíkhois
Accusative	τὸν τοῖχον tòn toîkhon	τὼ τοίχω tṑ toíkhō	τοὺς τοίχους toùs toíkhous
Vocative	τοῖχε toîkhe	τοίχω toíkhō	τοῖχοι toîkhoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• τεῖχος (teîkhos)

Descendants

• Greek: τοίχος (toíchos)

Further reading

• “τοῖχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τοῖχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “τοῖχος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• τοῖχος 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
• τοῖχος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “τοῖχος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5038 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.
  • side idem, page 772.
  • wall idem, page 960.
• “τοῖχος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011