ἰωκή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, perhaps from Pre-Greek and related to διώκω (diṓkō, “to cause to run”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /i.ɔː.kɛ̌ː/ → /i.oˈci/ → /i.oˈci/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /i.ɔː.kɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /i.oˈke̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.oˈci/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.oˈci/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.oˈci/

Noun

ἰωκή • (iōkḗ) f (genitive ἰωκῆς); first declension

1. rout, pursuit

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἰωκή; τῆς ἰωκῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἰωκή hē iōkḗ	τὼ ἰωκᾱ́ tṑ iōkā́	αἱ ἰωκαί hai iōkaí
Genitive	τῆς ἰωκῆς tês iōkês	τοῖν ἰωκαῖν toîn iōkaîn	τῶν ἰωκῶν tôn iōkôn
Dative	τῇ ἰωκῇ têi iōkêi	τοῖν ἰωκαῖν toîn iōkaîn	ταῖς ἰωκαῖς taîs iōkaîs
Accusative	τὴν ἰωκήν tḕn iōkḗn	τὼ ἰωκᾱ́ tṑ iōkā́	τᾱ̀ς ἰωκᾱ́ς tā̀s iōkā́s
Vocative	ἰωκή iōkḗ	ἰωκᾱ́ iōkā́	ἰωκαί iōkaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἰωχμός (iōkhmós)

Further reading

• “ἰωκή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἰωκή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἰωκή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἰωκή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἰωκή 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