βρόχθος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from the same Pre-Greek root of βρόζαι (brózai) and βρόγχος (brónkhos).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /brókʰ.tʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbrokʰ.tʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβrox.θos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvrox.θos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvrox.θos/
Noun
βρόχθος • (brókhthos) m (genitive βρόχθου); second declension
- (anatomy) throat
- gulp, drought, throatful
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ βρόχθος; τοῦ βρόχθου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ βρόχθος ho brókhthos | τὼ βρόχθω tṑ brókhthō | οἱ βρόχθοι hoi brókhthoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ βρόχθου toû brókhthou | τοῖν βρόχθοιν toîn brókhthoin | τῶν βρόχθων tôn brókhthōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ βρόχθῳ tôi brókhthōi | τοῖν βρόχθοιν toîn brókhthoin | τοῖς βρόχθοις toîs brókhthois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν βρόχθον tòn brókhthon | τὼ βρόχθω tṑ brókhthō | τοὺς βρόχθους toùs brókhthous | ||||||||||
Vocative | βρόχθε brókhthe | βρόχθω brókhthō | βρόχθοι brókhthoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- βροχθίζω (brokhthízō)
- βροχθισμός (brokhthismós)
- βροχθώδης (brokhthṓdēs)
Further reading
- βρόχθος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βρόχθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βρόχθος 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