μόροχθος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- μόροξος (móroxos)
Etymology
The variation "χθ/ξ" is typical of Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mó.rokʰ.tʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmo.rokʰ.tʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmo.rox.θos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmo.rox.θos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmo.rox.θos/
Noun
μόροχθος • (mórokhthos) m (genitive μορόχθου); second declension
- sort of pipeclay used to bleach clothes
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ μόροχθος; τοῦ μορόχθου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μόροχθος ho mórokhthos | τὼ μορόχθω tṑ morókhthō | οἱ μόροχθοι hoi mórokhthoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μορόχθου toû morókhthou | τοῖν μορόχθοιν toîn morókhthoin | τῶν μορόχθων tôn morókhthōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μορόχθῳ tôi morókhthōi | τοῖν μορόχθοιν toîn morókhthoin | τοῖς μορόχθοις toîs morókhthois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μόροχθον tòn mórokhthon | τὼ μορόχθω tṑ morókhthō | τοὺς μορόχθους toùs morókhthous | ||||||||||
Vocative | μόροχθε mórokhthe | μορόχθω morókhthō | μόροχθοι mórokhthoi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- μόροχθος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μόροχθος 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