Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὄκχος ‎(ókkhos) (Poetic)

Noun

ὄχος • ‎(ókhos) m ‎(genitive ὄχου); second declension

1. anything which holds, bears
2. carriage, cart, chariot
3. the wheels of a chariot

Inflection

Usage notes

Homer uses neuter plural forms (ὄχεα ‎(ókhea), ὀχέων ‎(okhéōn), ὄχεσφι ‎(ókhesphi)) (dative plural)), even for a single chariot.

References

• ὄχος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὄχος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὄχος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ὄχος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὄχος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • car idem, page 113.
  • carriage idem, page 115.
  • chariot idem, page 126.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill