Ancient Greek

Noun

ᾰ̓́λοχος • ‎(álokhos) f ‎(genitive ᾰ̓λόχου); second declension

1. partner of one's bed, wife
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.209–210

     .... ῑ̔μειρόμενός περ ἰδέσθαι
     σὴν ἄλοχον, τῆς τ' αἰὲν ἐέλδεαι ἤματα πάντα.

     [Calypso speaking to Odysseus:]
     ... even though you desire to see
     your wife, and you always long for her every day.

   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.114
   • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 63
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 181
   • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 543
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1.1253b.7
   • Theodect. 13
2. concubine
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.336
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.623

Declension

Derived terms

• ᾰ̓λοχίς ‎(alokhís)

Etymology 2

ἀ- ‎(a-, alpha privativum) +‎ λέχος ‎(lékhos, “marriage bed”)

Noun

ᾰ̓́λοχος • ‎(álokhos) f ‎(genitive ᾰ̓λόχου); second declension

1. unwed
   • bad argument #1 to 'lc' (string expected, got nil)
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.155

Declension

Derived terms

• ᾰ̓λόχευτος ‎(alókheutos)

References

• ἄλοχος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄλοχος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἄλοχος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἄλοχος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἄλοχος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «ἄλοχος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• ἄλοχος 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.
  • bedfellow idem, page 69.
  • consort idem, page 164.
  • spouse idem, page 805.
  • wife idem, page 978.