Ancient Greek

Adjective

ταχύς • ‎(takhús) m ‎(feminine ταχεῖα, neuter ταχύ); first/third declension

1. swift, quick, fast, rapid
2. In a short time: soon

Inflection

Synonyms

• ὠκύς ‎(ōkús)

Antonyms

• βραδύς ‎(bradús, “slow”)

Derived terms

• ταχέως ‎(takhéōs)
• ταχυτής ‎(takhutḗs)

Descendants

• English: tachy-

References

• ταχύς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ταχύς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ταχύς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ταχύς» 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
• «ταχύς» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ταχύς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G5036”, 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.
  • expeditious idem, page 293.
  • express idem, page 295.
  • fleet idem, page 327.
  • hasty idem, page 387.
  • headlong idem, page 390.
  • hurried idem, page 411.
  • nimble idem, page 558.
  • quick idem, page 665.
  • rapid idem, page 672.
  • sharp idem, page 762.
  • speedy idem, page 801.
  • swift idem, page 848.
• Andrew L. Sihler (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek.

Adjective

ταχύς • ‎(tachýs) m ‎(feminine ταχεία, neuter ταχύ)

1. fast; rapid; sudden.

Declension