"ὅρκος" meaning in Ancient Greek

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Noun

IPA: /hór.kos/, /ˈor.kos/, /ˈor.kos/, /hór.kos/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /ˈ(h)or.kos/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /ˈor.kos/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /ˈor.kos/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /ˈor.kos/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: From Proto-Indo-European *serḱ- (“to fence”). Cognate with ἕρκος (hérkos, “fence”), ὁρκάνη (horkánē, “fence”), ἑρκάνη (herkánē, “fence”), Latin sarciō. Etymology templates: {{der|grc|ine-pro|*serḱ-||to fence}} Proto-Indo-European *serḱ- (“to fence”), {{m|grc|ἕρκος||fence}} ἕρκος (hérkos, “fence”), {{m|grc|ὁρκάνη||fence}} ὁρκάνη (horkánē, “fence”), {{m|grc|ἑρκάνη||fence}} ἑρκάνη (herkánē, “fence”), {{cog|la|sarciō}} Latin sarciō Head templates: {{grc-noun|ὅρκου|m|second}} ὅρκος • (hórkos) m (genitive ὅρκου); second declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|ὅρκος|ου}} Forms: hórkos [romanization], ὅρκου [genitive], Attic declension-2 [table-tags], ὁ ὅρκος [nominative, singular], τὼ ὅρκω [dual, nominative], οἱ ὅρκοι [nominative, plural], τοῦ ὅρκου [genitive, singular], τοῖν ὅρκοιν [dual, genitive], τῶν ὅρκων [genitive, plural], τῷ ὅρκῳ [dative, singular], τοῖν ὅρκοιν [dative, dual], τοῖς ὅρκοις [dative, plural], τὸν ὅρκον [accusative, singular], τὼ ὅρκω [accusative, dual], τοὺς ὅρκους [accusative, plural], ὅρκε [singular, vocative], ὅρκω [dual, vocative], ὅρκοι [plural, vocative]
  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
    Sense id: en-ὅρκος-grc-noun-3OPRyGlM Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension, Ancient Greek second-declension nouns without gender specified, Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 61 39 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension: 67 33 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek second-declension nouns without gender specified: 66 34 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes: 59 41
  2. an oath Synonyms: ὅρκιον
    Sense id: en-ὅρκος-grc-noun-PWsgyS8I
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: ὁρκίζω (horkízō), ὅρκιος (hórkios), ὁρκόω (horkóō)

Inflected forms

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