τροχός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰrogʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-, whence τρέχω (trékhō, “I run”). Cognates include Old Irish droch, and Old Armenian դուրգն (durgn, “potter's wheel”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tro.kʰós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /troˈkʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /troˈxos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /troˈxos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /troˈxos/
Noun
τροχός • (trokhós) m (genitive τροχοῦ); second declension
- wheel
- hoop, ring
- island
- perimeter
- running course
- race
- runner
- badger
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ τροχός; τοῦ τροχοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ τροχός ho trokhós | τὼ τροχώ tṑ trokhṓ | οἱ τροχοί hoi trokhoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ τροχοῦ toû trokhoû | τοῖν τροχοῖν toîn trokhoîn | τῶν τροχῶν tôn trokhôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ τροχῷ tôi trokhôi | τοῖν τροχοῖν toîn trokhoîn | τοῖς τροχοῖς toîs trokhoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν τροχόν tòn trokhón | τὼ τροχώ tṑ trokhṓ | τοὺς τροχούς toùs trokhoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | τροχέ trokhé | τροχώ trokhṓ | τροχοί trokhoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- εὔτροχος (eútrokhos)
- τροχιλεία (trokhileía)
Further reading
- “τροχός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τροχός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τροχός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τροχός 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
- τροχός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “τροχός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5164 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.
- hoop idem, page 405.
- potter idem, page 629.
- rack idem, page 668.
- torture idem, page 884.
- wheel idem, page 975.
- 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
Greek
Etymology
Inherited from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós) (in some senses, such as potter's wheel; in the general sense, it may have been a later learned borrowing).
Noun
τροχός • (trochós) m (plural τροχοί)
- wheel
- potter's wheel
Declension
declension of τροχός
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | τροχός • | τροχοί • |
genitive | τροχού • | τροχών • |
accusative | τροχό • | τροχούς • |
vocative | τροχέ • | τροχοί • |
Synonyms
- (wheel): ρόδα (róda)
- (potter's wheel): τροχός του αγγειοπλάστη (trochós tou angeioplásti)
Derived terms
- γωνιακός τροχός m (goniakós trochós, “angle grinder”)
Further reading
- τροχός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el