μοχλός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, ultimately of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mo.kʰlós/ → /moˈxlos/ → /moˈxlos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mo.kʰlós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /moˈkʰlos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /moˈxlos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /moˈxlos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /moˈxlos/

Noun

μοχλός • (mokhlós) m (genitive μοχλοῦ); second declension

1. lever, bar, crowbar

Declension

Second declension of ὁ μοχλός; τοῦ μοχλοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μοχλός ho mokhlós	τὼ μοχλώ tṑ mokhlṓ	οἱ μοχλοί hoi mokhloí
Genitive	τοῦ μοχλοῦ toû mokhloû	τοῖν μοχλοῖν toîn mokhloîn	τῶν μοχλῶν tôn mokhlôn
Dative	τῷ μοχλῷ tôi mokhlôi	τοῖν μοχλοῖν toîn mokhloîn	τοῖς μοχλοῖς toîs mokhloîs
Accusative	τὸν μοχλόν tòn mokhlón	τὼ μοχλώ tṑ mokhlṓ	τοὺς μοχλούς toùs mokhloús
Vocative	μοχλέ mokhlé	μοχλώ mokhlṓ	μοχλοί mokhloí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μοχλεύω (mokhleúō)
• μοχλικός (mokhlikós)
• μοχλίον (mokhlíon)
• μοχλίσκος (mokhlískos)
• ὑπομόχλιον (hupomókhlion)

 

Descendants

• Greek: μοχλός (mochlós)
• → Arabic: مُحْل (muḥl), مُخْل (muḵl), مَحَال (maḥāl), مَحَالَة (maḥāla), مَخَال／مِخَال／مُخَال (maḵāl), مِيخَال (mīḵāl)
• → Coptic: ⲙⲟⲭⲗⲟⲥ (mokhlos)
• → Classical Syriac: ܡܘܟܠܐ (muḵlā)
• → Old Georgian: მოქლონი (mokloni)
  • Georgian: მოქლონი (mokloni)

Further reading

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

Greek

Etymology

Inherited from Ancient Greek μοχλός (mokhlós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moˈxlos/
• Hyphenation: μο‧χλός

Noun

μοχλός • (mochlós) m (plural μοχλοί)

1. lever

Declension

Declension of μοχλός

	singular	plural
nominative	μοχλός •	μοχλοί •
genitive	μοχλού •	μοχλών •
accusative	μοχλό •	μοχλούς •
vocative	μοχλέ •	μοχλοί •

Further reading

• μοχλός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el