τροχός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰrogʰós, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to run, drag, pull”), whence τρέχω (trékhō, “I run”). Cognates include Old Irish droch (“wheel, circlet”) and Old Armenian դուրգն (durgn, “potter's wheel”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tro.kʰós/ → /troˈxos/ → /troˈxos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tro.kʰós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /troˈkʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /troˈxos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /troˈxos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /troˈxos/

Noun

τροχός • (trokhós) m (genitive τροχοῦ); second declension

1. wheel
2. hoop, ring
3. island
4. perimeter
5. running course
6. race
7. runner
8. badger

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ τροχός; τοῦ τροχοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ τροχός ho trokhós	τὼ τροχώ tṑ trokhṓ	οἱ τροχοί hoi trokhoí
Genitive	τοῦ τροχοῦ toû trokhoû	τοῖν τροχοῖν toîn trokhoîn	τῶν τροχῶν tôn trokhôn
Dative	τῷ τροχῷ tôi trokhôi	τοῖν τροχοῖν toîn trokhoîn	τοῖς τροχοῖς toîs trokhoîs
Accusative	τὸν τροχόν tòn trokhón	τὼ τροχώ tṑ trokhṓ	τοὺς τροχούς toùs trokhoús
Vocative	τροχέ trokhé	τροχώ trokhṓ	τροχοί trokhoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• εὔτροχος (eútrokhos)
• τροχήλατος (trokhḗlatos)
• τροχιά (trokhiá)
• τροχοειδής (trokhoeidḗs)

 

Further reading

• “τροχός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τροχός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “τροχός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• τροχός 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
• τροχός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “τροχός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5164 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.
  • hoop idem, page 405.
  • potter idem, page 629.
  • rack idem, page 668.
  • torture idem, page 884.
  • wheel idem, page 975.

Greek

Etymology

Inherited from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós) (in some senses, such as potter's wheel; in the general sense, it may have been a later learned borrowing).

Noun

τροχός • (trochós) m (plural τροχοί)

1. wheel
2. potter's wheel

Declension

Declension of τροχός

	singular	plural
nominative	τροχός (trochós)	τροχοί (trochoí)
genitive	τροχού (trochoú)	τροχών (trochón)
accusative	τροχό (trochó)	τροχούς (trochoús)
vocative	τροχέ (troché)	τροχοί (trochoí)

Synonyms

• (wheel): ρόδα (róda)
• (potter's wheel): τροχός του αγγειοπλάστη (trochós tou angeioplásti)

Derived terms

• γωνιακός τροχός m (goniakós trochós, “angle grinder”)

Further reading

• τροχός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el