δοκός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From δέχομαι (dékhomai, “to accept, receive”) +‎ -ός (-ós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /do.kós/ → /ðoˈkos/ → /ðoˈkos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /do.kós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /doˈkos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ðoˈkos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðoˈkos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðoˈkos/

Noun

δοκός • (dokós) m or f (genitive δοκοῦ); second declension

1. the main beam, especially in a house
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 22.176
   • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 1496
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.744
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.112
   1. beam
      • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 201
      • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 7:3–4
2. a type of meteor
   • 23 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Natural History 2.96
   • 490 CE – 600 CE, John the Lydian, De Ostentis 10B

Declension

Second declension of ὁ δοκός; τοῦ δοκοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ δοκός ho dokós	τὼ δοκώ tṑ dokṓ	οἱ δοκοί hoi dokoí
Genitive	τοῦ δοκοῦ toû dokoû	τοῖν δοκοῖν toîn dokoîn	τῶν δοκῶν tôn dokôn
Dative	τῷ δοκῷ tôi dokôi	τοῖν δοκοῖν toîn dokoîn	τοῖς δοκοῖς toîs dokoîs
Accusative	τὸν δοκόν tòn dokón	τὼ δοκώ tṑ dokṓ	τοὺς δοκούς toùs dokoús
Vocative	δοκέ doké	δοκώ dokṓ	δοκοί dokoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Greek: δοκός (dokós) (learned)

References

• “δοκός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “δοκός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “δοκός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• δοκός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• δοκός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• δοκός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1385 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • beam idem, page 66.
  • board idem, page 86.
  • lath idem, page 478.
  • plank idem, page 617.
  • rafter idem, page 668.
  • spar idem, page 798.

Greek

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek δοκός (dokós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ðoˈkos/
• Hyphenation: δο‧κός

Noun

δοκός • (dokós) f or m (plural δοκοί)

1. beam (horizontal component of a building, made of wood, concrete, etc.)
2. (sports) crossbar
3. (sports) goalpost
4. (gymnastics) beam

   Synonym: δοκός ισορροπίας f (dokós isorropías, “balance beam”)

Declension

Declension of δοκός

	singular	plural
nominative	δοκός •	δοκοί •
genitive	δοκού •	δοκών •
accusative	δοκό •	δοκούς •
vocative	δοκέ •,  δοκό •	δοκοί •

Synonyms

• (horizontal component, crossbar, goalpost): δοκάρι n (dokári)