ἦχος
See also: ήχος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Later form of ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound, noise”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɛ̂ː.kʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈe̝.kʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈi.xos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈi.xos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.xos/
Noun
ἦχος • (êkhos) m (genitive ἤχου); second declension
- sound, noise, ringing of the ears
- echo
- (grammar) breathing (i.e. aspiration; rough (δᾰσεῖᾰ) or smooth (ψῑλή))
- voice
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ ἦχος; τοῦ ἤχου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ἦχος ho êkhos | τὼ ἤχω tṑ ḗkhō | οἱ ἦχοι hoi êkhoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἤχου toû ḗkhou | τοῖν ἤχοιν toîn ḗkhoin | τῶν ἤχων tôn ḗkhōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἤχῳ tôi ḗkhōi | τοῖν ἤχοιν toîn ḗkhoin | τοῖς ἤχοις toîs ḗkhois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ἦχον tòn êkhon | τὼ ἤχω tṑ ḗkhō | τοὺς ἤχους toùs ḗkhous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἦχε êkhe | ἤχω ḗkhō | ἦχοι êkhoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: ήχος (íchos)
Further reading
- “ἦχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἦχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἦχος 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
- G2279 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- ἦχος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften