εἰκός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- οἰκός (oikós) – Ionic
Etymology
Neuter participle of ἔοικα (éoika, “appear, seem”)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /eː.kós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /iˈkos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /iˈkos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /iˈkos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /iˈkos/
Noun
εἰκός • (eikós) n (genitive εἰκότος); third declension
- likely, probable, reasonable
- (neuter substantive) likelihood, probability
- (in Aristotle's Logic) a probable proposition
- (neuter substantive) likelihood, probability
- reasonable, fair, equitable
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ εἰκός tò eikós |
τὼ εἰκότε tṑ eikóte |
τᾰ̀ εἰκότᾰ tà eikóta | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ εἰκότος toû eikótos |
τοῖν εἰκότοιν toîn eikótoin |
τῶν εἰκότων tôn eikótōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ εἰκότῐ tôi eikóti |
τοῖν εἰκότοιν toîn eikótoin |
τοῖς εἰκόσῐ(ν) toîs eikósi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ εἰκός tò eikós |
τὼ εἰκότε tṑ eikóte |
τᾰ̀ εἰκότᾰ tà eikóta | ||||||||||
| Vocative | εἰκός eikós |
εἰκότε eikóte |
εἰκότᾰ eikóta | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ts. | ||||||||||||
References
- εἰκός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- εἰκός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- εἰκός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- εἰκός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2018)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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