τόκος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τίκτω (tíktō, “I beget”)

The "oppression" sense is as a calque of Hebrew תּוֹך‎ (tóch).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tó.kos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈto.kos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈto.kos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈto.kos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈto.kos/

Noun

τόκος • (tókos) m (genitive τόκου); second declension

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ τόκος; τοῦ τόκου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

δυστοκία (dustokía)
Θεοτόκος (Theotókos)

Descendants

→ Old Armenian: տոկոս (tokos)
→ English: toko-
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’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.
- 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

	singular	plural
nominative	τόκος •	τόκοι •
genitive	τόκου •	τόκων •
accusative	τόκο •	τόκους •
vocative	τόκε •	τόκοι •

Related terms

ανατοκίζω (anatokízo)
ανατοκισμός (anatokismós)
άτοκος (átokos, “interest-free”)
επιτόκιο (epitókio)
τοκίζω (tokízo)
τοκισμός (tokismós)
τοκιστής m (tokistís, “moneylender”)
τοκογλυφία (tokoglyfía)
τοκογλύφος m, f (tokoglýfos, “loan shark”)
τοκολόγιο (tokológio)
τοκομερίδιο (tokomerídio)
τοκοφόρος (tokofóros, “bearing interest”)
τοκοχρεωλύσιο (tokochreolýsio)

Further reading

τόκος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el

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