Ancient Greek

Noun

δοκός • ‎(dokós) m, f ‎(genitive δοκοῦ); second declension

1. the main beam, especially in a house
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 22.176
   • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 1496
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.744
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.112
   1. beam
      • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 201
2. a type of meteor
   • 23 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Natural History 2.96
   • 490 CE – 600 CE, John the Lydian, De Ostentis 10.B

Declension

References

• δοκός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δοκός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• δοκός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «δοκός» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «δοκός» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «δοκός» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G1385”, 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.
  • beam idem, page 66.
  • board idem, page 86.
  • lath idem, page 478.
  • plank idem, page 617.
  • rafter idem, page 668.
  • spar idem, page 798.