θᾶκος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- θῶκος (thôkos) – Ionic, Epic
Etymology
From the Hesychian gloss θάβακον (thábakon, “seat, throne”), it appears that this word was contracted from *θά(ϝ)ακος (*thá(w)akos). Connection with Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place”) as zero grade is impossible because of *θά(ϝ)ακος (*thá(w)akos). The word must be Pre-Greek, as was observed by Furnée. A suffix -ακ is frequent in Pre-Greek; the variation *-αϝ-/-οϝ- is normal in substrate words.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰâː.kos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtʰa.kos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈθa.kos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈθa.kos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈθa.kos/
Noun
θᾶκος • (thâkos) m (genitive θᾱ́κου); second declension
- seat, chair
- Synonyms: δίφρος (díphros), ἕδρα (hédra)
- chair of office
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ θᾶκος; τοῦ θᾱ́κου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ θᾶκος ho thâkos | τὼ θᾱ́κω tṑ thā́kō | οἱ θᾶκοι hoi thâkoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ θᾱ́κου toû thā́kou | τοῖν θᾱ́κοιν toîn thā́koin | τῶν θᾱ́κων tôn thā́kōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ θᾱ́κῳ tôi thā́kōi | θᾱ́κοιν thā́koin | τοῖς θᾱ́κοις toîs thā́kois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν θᾶκον tòn thâkon | θᾱ́κω thā́kō | τοὺς θᾱ́κους toùs thā́kous | ||||||||||
Vocative | θᾶκε thâke | θᾱ́κω thā́kō | θᾶκοι thâkoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- θακαθαλπάς (thakathalpás)
- θακεῖον (thakeîon)
- θακέω (thakéō)
- θάκημα (thákēma)
- θάκησις (thákēsis)
- σύνθακος (súnthakos)
Further reading
- θᾶκος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- θᾶκος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θᾶκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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