Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /týxi/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /týçi/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tíçi/

Proper noun

Τύχη • ‎(Túkhē) f ‎(genitive Τύχης); first declension

1. Tyche; Fortuna; Lady Luck

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: Τύχη ‎(Týchi)
• Latin: Tyche

References

• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,011

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• τιούχᾱ ‎(tioúkhā), τούχᾱ ‎(toúkhā) Boeotian

Noun

τῠ́χη • ‎(túkhē) f ‎(genitive τῠ́χης); first declension

1. the act of a god
2. the act of a human being
3. (regarded as an agent or cause beyond human control)
   1. fortune, providence, fate
   2. chance
4. (regarded as a result)
   1. good fortune, success
   2. ill fortune, misfortune
   3. (in a neutral sense, in plural) fortunes

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Greek: τύχη ‎(týchi)

References

• τύχη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τύχη in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «τύχη» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • accident idem, page 6.
  • chance idem, page 123.
  • contingency idem, page 168.
  • destiny idem, page 217.
  • fate idem, page 309.
  • Fate idem, page 1010.
  • fortune idem, page 340.
  • Fortune idem, page 1011.
  • hap idem, page 384.
  • hazard idem, page 389.
  • lot idem, page 501.
  • luck idem, page 503.
  • plight idem, page 621.

Greek

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek τύχη ‎(túkhē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈti.çi/

Noun

τύχη • ‎(týchi) f ‎(plural τύχες)

1. fate, chance, luck

Declension

Related terms

• τυχερός ‎(tycherós, “lucky”)