αὐχμός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, a compound of αὖος (aûos, “dry”) and an element "-χμ-" from the word for earth (see χθών (khthṓn, “ground, soil”)). A similar formation can be found in νεοχμός (neokhmós, “new”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /au̯kʰ.mós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aʍkʰˈmos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aɸxˈmos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /afxˈmos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /afxˈmos/
Noun
αὐχμός • (aukhmós) m (genitive αὐχμοῦ); second declension
- drought, dearth
- squalor, as effect of drought
- dryness, meagreness (of style)
- thirst
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ αὐχμός; τοῦ αὐχμοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ αὐχμός ho aukhmós | τὼ αὐχμώ tṑ aukhmṓ | οἱ αὐχμοί hoi aukhmoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ αὐχμοῦ toû aukhmoû | τοῖν αὐχμοῖν toîn aukhmoîn | τῶν αὐχμῶν tôn aukhmôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ αὐχμῷ tôi aukhmôi | τοῖν αὐχμοῖν toîn aukhmoîn | τοῖς αὐχμοῖς toîs aukhmoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν αὐχμόν tòn aukhmón | τὼ αὐχμώ tṑ aukhmṓ | τοὺς αὐχμούς toùs aukhmoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | αὐχμέ aukhmé | αὐχμώ aukhmṓ | αὐχμοί aukhmoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- αὐχμαλέος (aukhmaléos)
- αὐχμέω (aukhméō)
- αὐχμή (aukhmḗ)
- αὐχμήεις (aukhmḗeis)
- αὐχμηρός (aukhmērós)
- αὐχμώδης (aukhmṓdēs)
- αὔχμωσις (aúkhmōsis)
References
- αὐχμός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- αὐχμός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- αὐχμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- αὐχμός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
- 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