μόροχθος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μόροξος (móroxos)

Etymology

The variation "χθ/ξ" is typical of Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mó.rokʰ.tʰos/ → /ˈmo.rox.θos/ → /ˈmo.rox.θos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mó.rokʰ.tʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.rokʰ.tʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.rox.θos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.rox.θos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.rox.θos/

Noun

μόροχθος • (mórokhthos) m (genitive μορόχθου); second declension

1. sort of pipeclay used to bleach clothes

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μόροχθος; τοῦ μορόχθου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μόροχθος ho mórokhthos	τὼ μορόχθω tṑ morókhthō	οἱ μόροχθοι hoi mórokhthoi
Genitive	τοῦ μορόχθου toû morókhthou	τοῖν μορόχθοιν toîn morókhthoin	τῶν μορόχθων tôn morókhthōn
Dative	τῷ μορόχθῳ tôi morókhthōi	τοῖν μορόχθοιν toîn morókhthoin	τοῖς μορόχθοις toîs morókhthois
Accusative	τὸν μόροχθον tòn mórokhthon	τὼ μορόχθω tṑ morókhthō	τοὺς μορόχθους toùs morókhthous
Vocative	μόροχθε mórokhthe	μορόχθω morókhthō	μόροχθοι mórokhthoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “μόροχθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μόροχθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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