ὠσχός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὄσχος (óskhos)

Etymology

Hypothetically compared with Old Armenian ազգ (azg, “people, tribe”) and Persian آزغ (âzğ, “a thing lopped (as vine-prunings); slip, cutting, scion”), but this word is further isolated. The variation of the initial vowel rather shows that the word is Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɔːs.kʰós/ → /osˈxos/ → /osˈxos/

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

Noun

ὠσχός • (ōskhós) m (genitive ὠσχοῦ); second declension

1. (botany) young branch

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὠσχός; τοῦ ὠσχοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὠσχός ho ōskhós	τὼ ὠσχώ tṑ ōskhṓ	οἱ ὠσχοί hoi ōskhoí
Genitive	τοῦ ὠσχοῦ toû ōskhoû	τοῖν ὠσχοῖν toîn ōskhoîn	τῶν ὠσχῶν tôn ōskhôn
Dative	τῷ ὠσχῷ tôi ōskhôi	τοῖν ὠσχοῖν toîn ōskhoîn	τοῖς ὠσχοῖς toîs ōskhoîs
Accusative	τὸν ὠσχόν tòn ōskhón	τὼ ὠσχώ tṑ ōskhṓ	τοὺς ὠσχούς toùs ōskhoús
Vocative	ὠσχέ ōskhé	ὠσχώ ōskhṓ	ὠσχοί ōskhoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὠσχοφορέω (ōskhophoréō)
• ὠσχοφορία (ōskhophoría)
• ὠσχοφορικός (ōskhophorikós)
• ὠσχοφόροι (ōskhophóroi)

 

Related terms

• ὄσχη (óskhē), ὤσχη (ṓskhē, “branches full of bunches of grapes”)

Further reading

• “ὠσχός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN