ἦχος

See also: ήχος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Later form of ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound, noise”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̂ː.kʰos/ → /ˈi.xos/ → /ˈi.xos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɛ̂ː.kʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈe̝.kʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.xos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.xos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.xos/

Noun

ἦχος • (êkhos) m (genitive ἤχου); second declension

1. sound, noise, ringing of the ears
2. echo
3. (grammar) breathing (i.e. aspiration; rough (δᾰσεῖᾰ) or smooth (ψῑλή))
4. voice

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ἦχος; τοῦ ἤχου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἦχος ho êkhos	τὼ ἤχω tṑ ḗkhō	οἱ ἦχοι hoi êkhoi
Genitive	τοῦ ἤχου toû ḗkhou	τοῖν ἤχοιν toîn ḗkhoin	τῶν ἤχων tôn ḗkhōn
Dative	τῷ ἤχῳ tôi ḗkhōi	τοῖν ἤχοιν toîn ḗkhoin	τοῖς ἤχοις toîs ḗkhois
Accusative	τὸν ἦχον tòn êkhon	τὼ ἤχω tṑ ḗkhō	τοὺς ἤχους toùs ḗkhous
Vocative	ἦχε êkhe	ἤχω ḗkhō	ἦχοι êkhoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: ήχος (íchos)

Further reading

• “ἦχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἦχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἦχος 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
• G2279 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• ἦχος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften