πόκος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πέκω (pékō, “to comb, to card; to shear”) +‎ -ος (-os).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pó.kos/ → /ˈpo.kos/ → /ˈpo.kos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pó.kos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.kos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.kos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.kos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.kos/

Noun

πόκος • (pókos) m (genitive πόκου); second declension

1. wool
2. shorn wool, fleece

Declension

Second declension of ὁ πόκος; τοῦ πόκου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πόκος ho pókos	τὼ πόκω tṑ pókō	οἱ πόκοι hoi pókoi
Genitive	τοῦ πόκου toû pókou	τοῖν πόκοιν toîn pókoin	τῶν πόκων tôn pókōn
Dative	τῷ πόκῳ tôi pókōi	τοῖν πόκοιν toîn pókoin	τοῖς πόκοις toîs pókois
Accusative	τὸν πόκον tòn pókon	τὼ πόκω tṑ pókō	τοὺς πόκους toùs pókous
Vocative	πόκε póke	πόκω pókō	πόκοι pókoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “πόκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πόκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πόκος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πόκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • fleece idem, page 327.
  • nap idem, page 550.
  • wool idem, page 987.