δοκός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From δέχομαι (dékhomai, “to accept, receive”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /do.kós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /doˈkos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ðoˈkos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ðoˈkos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ðoˈkos/
Noun
δοκός • (dokós) m or f (genitive δοκοῦ); second declension
- the main beam, especially in a house
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 22.176
- 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 1496
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.744
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.112
- beam
- 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 201
- 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 7:3–4
- a type of meteor
- 23 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Natural History 2.96
- 490 CE – 600 CE, John the Lydian, De Ostentis 10B
Declension
Second declension of ὁ δοκός; τοῦ δοκοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ δοκός ho dokós | τὼ δοκώ tṑ dokṓ | οἱ δοκοί hoi dokoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ δοκοῦ toû dokoû | τοῖν δοκοῖν toîn dokoîn | τῶν δοκῶν tôn dokôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ δοκῷ tôi dokôi | τοῖν δοκοῖν toîn dokoîn | τοῖς δοκοῖς toîs dokoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν δοκόν tòn dokón | τὼ δοκώ tṑ dokṓ | τοὺς δοκούς toùs dokoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | δοκέ doké | δοκώ dokṓ | δοκοί dokoí | ||||||||||
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References
- “δοκός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “δοκός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “δοκός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- δοκός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- δοκός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- δοκός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- G1385 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- beam idem, page 66.
- board idem, page 86.
- lath idem, page 478.
- plank idem, page 617.
- rafter idem, page 668.
- spar idem, page 798.