ἔνοχος

See also: ένοχος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐνέχω (enékhō, “to hold within”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /é.no.kʰos/ → /ˈe.no.xos/ → /ˈe.no.xos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /é.no.kʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈe.no.kʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.no.xos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.no.xos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈe.no.xos/

Adjective

ἔνοχος • (énokhos) m or f (neuter ἔνοχον); second declension

1. held in, bound by
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1009B.17
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1337B.17
   • 350 BCE – 200 BCE, Apollodorus of Carystus, The Laconian Woman 1
2. (law) liable to, subject to
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 869B
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.2.64
   • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 5:22
   • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Third Tetralogy 1.6
   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Alcibiades 1 9
   • 343 BCE, Demosthenes, On the False Embassy 201
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Trierarchic Crown 4
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, On the Peace 7
   • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, On the Embassy 146
   • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Timarchus 185
   1. liable
      • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 148B
      • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, On the Choreutes 46
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 914E
      • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Alcibiades 1 5
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 2 Maccabees 13.6
      • 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 27.4
      • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 26:66
   2. (rare, with preposition)
      • 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On the Mysteries 79
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1384B.2
   3. (absolute) guilty
      • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Against the Stepmother for Poisoning 11
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1269A.3
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1380A.3
      • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Third Tetralogy 1.1
      • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, On the Choreutes 17
      • 360 BCE, Plato, The Sophist 261A

Inflection

Second declension of ἔνοχος; ἔνοχον (Attic)

Number		Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ἔνοχος énokhos	ἔνοχον énokhon		ἐνόχω enókhō	ἐνόχω enókhō		ἔνοχοι énokhoi	ἔνοχᾰ énokha
Genitive		ἐνόχου enókhou	ἐνόχου enókhou		ἐνόχοιν enókhoin	ἐνόχοιν enókhoin		ἐνόχων enókhōn	ἐνόχων enókhōn
Dative		ἐνόχῳ enókhōi	ἐνόχῳ enókhōi		ἐνόχοιν enókhoin	ἐνόχοιν enókhoin		ἐνόχοις enókhois	ἐνόχοις enókhois
Accusative		ἔνοχον énokhon	ἔνοχον énokhon		ἐνόχω enókhō	ἐνόχω enókhō		ἐνόχους enókhous	ἔνοχᾰ énokha
Vocative		ἔνοχε énokhe	ἔνοχον énokhon		ἐνόχω enókhō	ἐνόχω enókhō		ἔνοχοι énokhoi	ἔνοχᾰ énokha
Derived forms		Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
		ἐνόχως enókhōs			ἐνοχώτερος enokhṓteros			ἐνοχώτᾰτος enokhṓtatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: ένοχος (énochos)

Further reading

• “ἔνοχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἔνοχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἔνοχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἔνοχος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1777 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• ἔνοχος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • accountable idem, page 7.
  • amenable idem, page 27.
  • exposed idem, page 295.
  • liable idem, page 487.
  • open idem, page 574.
  • responsible idem, page 704.