Ancient Greek

Noun

θρίξ • ‎(thríx) f ‎(genitive τριχός); third declension

1. hair

Inflection

Usage notes

Originally containing two aspirates; in the Nom. and Voc. the initial aspirate is retained, the final deaspirated, whereas in the oblique forms the reverse is true.

Descendants

• English: tricho-, -trichous
• Greek: τρίχα ‎(trícha)

References

• θρίξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• θρίξ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θρίξ in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «θρίξ» 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
• «θρίξ» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G2359”, 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.
  • fur idem, page 350.
  • hair idem, page 380.
• 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