χόρτος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰortós, from *ǵʰer-. Cognates include Sanskrit गृह (gṛhá), Latin hortus, and Old English ġeard (English yard).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰór.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkʰor.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈxor.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈxor.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈxor.tos/
Noun
χόρτος • (khórtos) m (genitive χόρτου); second declension
- feeding place for animals, barn, pasture
- foodstuff for animals, fodder, hay, grass
- (in general) food
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ χόρτος; τοῦ χόρτου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ χόρτος ho khórtos | τὼ χόρτω tṑ khórtō | οἱ χόρτοι hoi khórtoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ χόρτου toû khórtou | τοῖν χόρτοιν toîn khórtoin | τῶν χόρτων tôn khórtōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ χόρτῳ tôi khórtōi | τοῖν χόρτοιν toîn khórtoin | τοῖς χόρτοις toîs khórtois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν χόρτον tòn khórton | τὼ χόρτω tṑ khórtō | τοὺς χόρτους toùs khórtous | ||||||||||
Vocative | χόρτε khórte | χόρτω khórtō | χόρτοι khórtoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- χορτάζω (khortázō)
- χορταῖος (khortaîos)
- χόρτασμα (khórtasma)
- χορτίον (khortíon)
- χορτόσπερμον (khortóspermon)
- χορτώδης (khortṓdēs)
Descendants
- Greek: χόρτο (chórto)
Further reading
- “χόρτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χόρτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “χόρτος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- χόρτος 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
- χόρτος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “χόρτος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5528 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.
- fodder idem, page 331.
- food idem, page 333.
- forage idem, page 334.
- hay idem, page 389.
- pabulum idem, page 587.
- provender idem, page 654.