στοχάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain, but suffixed with -άς (-ás). Compare with στοῖχος (stoîkhos, “row in an ascending series, column”), στίχος (stíkhos, “row or file of soldiers, line of poetry, verse”), from στείχω (steíkhō, “walk, march, go or come, march in line or order”), from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- (“to walk”). If from this root, cognate with German steigen; English sty, stair, stile; and possibly Latin vestīgō.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sto.kʰás/ → /stoˈxas/ → /stoˈxas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sto.kʰás/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /stoˈkʰas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /stoˈxas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /stoˈxas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /stoˈxas/

Noun

στοχάς • (stokhás) f (genitive στοχάδος); third declension

1. an erection of stone or wood for fixing net poles
2. (adjective) in a row
3. Synonym of στόχος (stókhos, “butt, target”)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ στοχᾰ́ς; τῆς στοχᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ στοχᾰ́ς hē stokhás	τὼ στοχᾰ́δε tṑ stokháde	αἱ στοχᾰ́δες hai stokhádes
Genitive	τῆς στοχᾰ́δος tês stokhádos	τοῖν στοχᾰ́δοιν toîn stokhádoin	τῶν στοχᾰ́δων tôn stokhádōn
Dative	τῇ στοχᾰ́δῐ têi stokhádi	τοῖν στοχᾰ́δοιν toîn stokhádoin	ταῖς στοχᾰ́σῐ / στοχᾰ́σῐν taîs stokhási(n)
Accusative	τὴν στοχᾰ́δᾰ tḕn stokháda	τὼ στοχᾰ́δε tṑ stokháde	τᾱ̀ς στοχᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s stokhádas
Vocative	στοχᾰ́ς stokhás	στοχᾰ́δε stokháde	στοχᾰ́δες stokhádes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Further reading

• “στοχάς”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “στοχάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press