Ancient Greek

Noun

ὅρκος • ‎(hórkos) m ‎(genitive ὅρκου); second declension

1. the object by which one swears, the witness of an oath, as the Styx was among the gods, or as Zeus was among mortals
   • Homer, Iliad 15.38
   1. an oath
      • Homer, Odyssey 2.377

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: όρκος ‎(órkos)

References

• ὅρκος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὅρκος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὅρκος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ὅρκος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ὅρκος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ὅρκος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3727”, 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.
  • affirmation idem, page 16.
  • asseveration idem, page 46.
  • oath idem, page 564.
  • swearing idem, page 847.