ἑκτικός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἕξις (héxis, “possession, condition”) +‎ -ικός (-ikós, “adjectival suffix”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hek.ti.kós/ → /ek.tiˈkos/ → /ek.tiˈkos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hek.ti.kós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)ek.tiˈkos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ek.tiˈkos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ek.tiˈkos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ek.tiˈkos/

Adjective

ἑκτῐκός • (hektĭkós) m (feminine ἑκτῐκή, neuter ἑκτῐκόν); first/second declension

1. formed by or forming habit
2. easy, fluent
3. sustaining
4. capable of
5. hectic, consumptive

Declension

First and second declension of ἑκτῐκός; ἑκτῐκή; ἑκτῐκόν (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ἑκτῐκός hektĭkós	ἑκτῐκή hektĭkḗ	ἑκτῐκόν hektĭkón		ἑκτῐκώ hektĭkṓ	ἑκτῐκᾱ́ hektĭkā́	ἑκτῐκώ hektĭkṓ		ἑκτῐκοί hektĭkoí	ἑκτῐκαί hektĭkaí	ἑκτῐκᾰ́ hektĭkắ
Genitive		ἑκτῐκοῦ hektĭkoû	ἑκτῐκῆς hektĭkês	ἑκτῐκοῦ hektĭkoû		ἑκτῐκοῖν hektĭkoîn	ἑκτῐκαῖν hektĭkaîn	ἑκτῐκοῖν hektĭkoîn		ἑκτῐκῶν hektĭkôn	ἑκτῐκῶν hektĭkôn	ἑκτῐκῶν hektĭkôn
Dative		ἑκτῐκῷ hektĭkôi	ἑκτῐκῇ hektĭkêi	ἑκτῐκῷ hektĭkôi		ἑκτῐκοῖν hektĭkoîn	ἑκτῐκαῖν hektĭkaîn	ἑκτῐκοῖν hektĭkoîn		ἑκτῐκοῖς hektĭkoîs	ἑκτῐκαῖς hektĭkaîs	ἑκτῐκοῖς hektĭkoîs
Accusative		ἑκτῐκόν hektĭkón	ἑκτῐκήν hektĭkḗn	ἑκτῐκόν hektĭkón		ἑκτῐκώ hektĭkṓ	ἑκτῐκᾱ́ hektĭkā́	ἑκτῐκώ hektĭkṓ		ἑκτῐκούς hektĭkoús	ἑκτῐκᾱ́ς hektĭkā́s	ἑκτῐκᾰ́ hektĭkắ
Vocative		ἑκτῐκέ hektĭké	ἑκτῐκή hektĭkḗ	ἑκτῐκόν hektĭkón		ἑκτῐκώ hektĭkṓ	ἑκτῐκᾱ́ hektĭkā́	ἑκτῐκώ hektĭkṓ		ἑκτῐκοί hektĭkoí	ἑκτῐκαί hektĭkaí	ἑκτῐκᾰ́ hektĭkắ
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		ἑκτῐκῶς hektĭkôs				ἑκτῐκώτερος hektĭkṓteros				ἑκτῐκώτᾰτος hektĭkṓtătos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Late Latin: hecticus
  • Old French: etique (“consumptive”)
    • → Middle English: etik
      • English: hectic (re-formed after the Latin and Greek)
    • French: étique, hectique
  • →⇒ Czech: hektický
  • →⇒ Finnish: hektinen
  • →⇒ Italian: etico
  • →⇒ German: hektisch
  • →⇒ Norwegian Bokmål: hektisk
  • →⇒ Norwegian Nynorsk: hektisk
  • →⇒ Swedish: hektisk
• → Serbo-Croatian: jèktika
• ⇒ Byzantine Greek: ἑκτικιόν (hektikión)
  • Greek: χτικιό (chtikió)
• ⇒ Byzantine Greek: ἑκτικιάζω (hektikiázō)
  • Greek: χτικιάζω (chtikiázo)

Further reading

• ἑκτικός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• ἑκτικός, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “ἑκτικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press