ὅρκος
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *serḱ- (“to fence”). Cognate with ἕρκος (hérkos, “fence”), ὁρκάνη (horkánē, “fence”), ἑρκάνη (herkánē, “fence”), Latin sarciō.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hór.kos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)or.kos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈor.kos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈor.kos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈor.kos/
Noun
[edit]ὅρκος • (hórkos) m (genitive ὅρκου); second declension
- the object by which one swears, the witness of an oath, as the Styx was among the gods, or as Zeus was among mortals
- an oath
- Synonym: ὅρκιον (hórkion)
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ὅρκος ho hórkos |
τὼ ὅρκω tṑ hórkō |
οἱ ὅρκοι hoi hórkoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ὅρκου toû hórkou |
τοῖν ὅρκοιν toîn hórkoin |
τῶν ὅρκων tôn hórkōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ὅρκῳ tôi hórkōi |
τοῖν ὅρκοιν toîn hórkoin |
τοῖς ὅρκοις toîs hórkois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ὅρκον tòn hórkon |
τὼ ὅρκω tṑ hórkō |
τοὺς ὅρκους toùs hórkous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὅρκε hórke |
ὅρκω hórkō |
ὅρκοι hórkoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Greek: όρκος (órkos)
References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἕρκος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 460
Further reading
[edit]- “ὅρκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὅρκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὅρκος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὅρκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὅρκος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ὅρκος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3727 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.
- affirmation idem, page 16.
- asseveration idem, page 46.
- oath idem, page 564.
- swearing idem, page 847.
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- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
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- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension