τόκος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From τίκτω (tíktō, “I beget”).
The "oppression" sense is a semantic loan from Hebrew תּוֹך (tóch).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tó.kos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈto.kos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈto.kos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈto.kos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈto.kos/
Noun
τόκος • (tókos) m (genitive τόκου); second declension
- childbirth, parturition
- offspring
- interest (of money)
- oppression
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ τόκος; τοῦ τόκου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ τόκος ho tókos | τὼ τόκω tṑ tókō | οἱ τόκοι hoi tókoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ τόκου toû tókou | τοῖν τόκοιν toîn tókoin | τῶν τόκων tôn tókōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ τόκῳ tôi tókōi | τοῖν τόκοιν toîn tókoin | τοῖς τόκοις toîs tókois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν τόκον tòn tókon | τὼ τόκω tṑ tókō | τοὺς τόκους toùs tókous | ||||||||||
Vocative | τόκε tóke | τόκω tókō | τόκοι tókoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- δυστοκία (dustokía)
- Θεοτόκος (Theotókos)
Descendants
- → Old Armenian: տոկոս (tokos)
- → English: toco-
- Greek: τόκος (tókos)
Further reading
- “τόκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τόκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τόκος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τόκος 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
- τόκος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “τόκος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5110 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.
- bearing idem, page 67.
- birth idem, page 79.
- childbed idem, page 129.
- interest idem, page 450.
- labour idem, page 472.
- offspring idem, page 571.
- parturition idem, page 595.
- progeny idem, page 653.
- son idem, page 793.
- travail idem, page 890.
- usury idem, page 941.
- young idem, page 997.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τόκος (tókos).
Noun
τόκος • (tókos) m (plural τόκοι)
- (finance) interest (charge made for credit)
- (finance) interest rate
Declension
declension of τόκος
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | τόκος • | τόκοι • |
genitive | τόκου • | τόκων • |
accusative | τόκο • | τόκους • |
vocative | τόκε • | τόκοι • |
Related terms
- ανατοκίζω (anatokízo, “to capitalise interest”)
- ανατοκισμός m (anatokismós, “compound interest”)
- άτοκος (átokos, “interest-free”)
- επιτόκιο n (epitókio, “interest rate”)
- τοκίζω (tokízo, “to lend money with interest”)
- τοκισμός m (tokismós, “lending money with interest”)
- τοκιστής m (tokistís, “moneylender”)
- τοκογλυφία f (tokoglyfía, “usury”)
- τοκογλύφος m or f (tokoglýfos, “loan shark”)
- τοκολόγιο n (tokológio, “table of interest”)
- τοκομερίδιο n (tokomerídio, “dividend”)
- τοκοφόρος (tokofóros, “bearing interest”)
- τοκοχρεωλύσιο n (tokochreolýsio, “annuity”)
Further reading
- τόκος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el