βήξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Furnée argues for a Pre-Greek origin, but the word might also be of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂s-, itself of imitative origin; βήξ (bḗx) could point to a protoform *gʷeh₂(s)-gʰ-.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bɛ̌ːks/ → /βiks/ → /viks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bɛ̌ːks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /be̝ks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βiks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /viks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /viks/

Noun

βήξ • (bḗx) m or f (genitive βηχός); third declension

1. cough

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ βήξ; τοῦ βηχός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βήξ ho bḗx	τὼ βῆχε tṑ bêkhe	οἱ βῆχες hoi bêkhes
Genitive	τοῦ βηχός toû bēkhós	τοῖν βηχοῖν toîn bēkhoîn	τῶν βηχῶν tôn bēkhôn
Dative	τῷ βηχῐ́ tôi bēkhí	τοῖν βηχοῖν toîn bēkhoîn	τοῖς βηξῐ́ / βηξῐ́ν toîs bēxí(n)
Accusative	τὸν βῆχᾰ tòn bêkha	τὼ βῆχε tṑ bêkhe	τοὺς βῆχᾰς toùs bêkhas
Vocative	βήξ bḗx	βῆχε bêkhe	βῆχες bêkhes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• βήξω (bḗxō)
• βηχικός (bēkhikós)
• βηχίον (bēkhíon)
• βήχιον (bḗkhion)
• βηχώδης (bēkhṓdēs)

Related terms

• βήσσω (bḗssō)

Descendants

• Greek: βήχας (víchas)

References

• “βήξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βήξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βήξ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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, →ISBN