ὅρκιον

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hór.ki.on/ → /ˈor.ci.on/ → /ˈor.ci.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hór.ki.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)or.ki.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈor.ci.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈor.ci.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈor.ci.on/

Noun

ὅρκῐον • (hórkĭon) n (genitive ὁρκίου); second declension

1. oath

   Synonym: ὅρκος (hórkos)

2. pledge, surety
3. treaty
4. victim sacrificed to mark the settlement of an oath or treaty

Declension

Second declension of τὸ ὅρκῐον; τοῦ ὁρκῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὅρκῐον tò hórkĭon	τὼ ὁρκῐ́ω tṑ horkĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ ὅρκῐᾰ tằ hórkĭă
Genitive	τοῦ ὁρκῐ́ου toû horkĭ́ou	τοῖν ὁρκῐ́οιν toîn horkĭ́oin	τῶν ὁρκῐ́ων tôn horkĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ ὁρκῐ́ῳ tôi horkĭ́ōi	τοῖν ὁρκῐ́οιν toîn horkĭ́oin	τοῖς ὁρκῐ́οις toîs horkĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ ὅρκῐον tò hórkĭon	τὼ ὁρκῐ́ω tṑ horkĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ ὅρκῐᾰ tằ hórkĭă
Vocative	ὅρκῐον hórkĭon	ὁρκῐ́ω horkĭ́ō	ὅρκῐᾰ hórkĭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Adjective

ὅρκῐον • (hórkĭon)

1. inflection of ὅρκῐος (hórkĭos):
   1. accusative singular masculine
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative singular neuter

Further reading

• ὅρκιον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ὅρκιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • oath idem, page 564.
  • swearing idem, page 847.