τεῖχος
See also: τείχος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ-. Cognates include Sanskrit देग्धि (degdhi), Latin fingō, Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬰𐬀 (daēza, “wall”), and Old Armenian դէզ (dēz).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /têː.kʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈti.kʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈti.xos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈti.xos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈti.xos/
Noun
τεῖχος • (teîkhos) n (genitive τείχεος or τείχους); third declension
- mound, earth works
- wall (especially one enclosing a town or city)
- fortified city
- fortification, castle
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ τεῖχος tò teîkhos |
τὼ τείχεε tṑ teíkhee |
τᾰ̀ τείχεᾰ tà teíkhea | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ τείχεος toû teíkheos |
τοῖν τειχέοιν toîn teikhéoin |
τῶν τειχέων tôn teikhéōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ τείχεῐ̈ tôi teíkheï |
τοῖν τειχέοιν toîn teikhéoin |
τοῖς τείχεσῐ(ν) toîs teíkhesi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ τεῖχος tò teîkhos |
τὼ τείχεε tṑ teíkhee |
τᾰ̀ τείχεᾰ tà teíkhea | ||||||||||
| Vocative | τεῖχος teîkhos |
τείχεε teíkhee |
τείχεᾰ teíkhea | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Descendants
- Greek: τείχος (teíchos)
Related terms
- τοῖχος (toîkhos)
References
- τεῖχος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τεῖχος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τεῖχος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τεῖχος 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
- τεῖχος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- τεῖχος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5038 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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