τράχηλος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- τράχᾱλος (trákhālos) – Doric
Etymology
Unknown. Suggested as a Pre-Greek substrate word by Beekes.[1]
Compare θώραξ.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /trá.kʰɛː.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtra.kʰe̝.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈtra.çi.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈtra.çi.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈtra.çi.los/
Noun
τρᾰ́χηλος • (trákhēlos) m (genitive τρᾰχήλου); second declension
- neck
Declension
Second declension of ὁ τρᾰ́χηλος; τοῦ τρᾰχήλου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ τρᾰ́χηλος ho trákhēlos | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ τρᾰχήλου toû trakhḗlou | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ τρᾰχήλῳ tôi trakhḗlōi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν τρᾰ́χηλον tòn trákhēlon | ||||||||||||
Vocative | τρᾰ́χηλε trákhēle | ||||||||||||
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Second declension of τᾰ̀ τρᾰ́χηλᾰ; τῶν τρᾰχήλων (Attic)
Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | τᾰ̀ τρᾰ́χηλᾰ tà trákhēla | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῶν τρᾰχήλων tôn trakhḗlōn | ||||||||||||
Dative | τοῖς τρᾰχήλοις toîs trakhḗlois | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τᾰ̀ τρᾰ́χηλᾰ tà trákhēla | ||||||||||||
Vocative | τρᾰ́χηλᾰ trákhēla | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- → English: trachelo-
References
- 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, page 1501
Further reading
- “τράχηλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τράχηλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τράχηλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- neck idem, page 554.
- throat idem, page 870.