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ὀχεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀχεύς ὀχέως

Structure: ὀχευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)/xw

Sense

  1. anything for holding or fastening
  2. a strap for fastening the helmet
  3. the fastenings of the belt
  4. a bar to fasten

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὀχεύς ὀχή ὀχής
Genitive ὀχέως ὀχέοιν ὀχέων
Dative ὀχεί ὀχέοιν ὀχεῦσιν*
Accusative ὀχέα ὀχή ὀχέᾱς
Vocative ὀχεύ ὀχή ὀχής

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὧν οὐδὲν σκοποῦμεν οὐδ’ ἐννοοῦμεν, ὅτι ψυχὴν ἰσχυρὰν καὶ πάντῃ μεγάλην ἀσθενέστερον καὶ ἔλαττον εἶδοσ ὅταν ὀχῇ, καὶ ὅταν αὖ τοὐναντίον συμπαγῆτον τούτω, οὐ καλὸν ὅλον τὸ ζῷον ‐ ἀσύμμετρον γὰρ ταῖσ μεγίσταισ συμμετρίαισ ‐ τὸ δὲ ἐναντίωσ ἔχον πάντων θεαμάτων τῷ δυναμένῳ καθορᾶν κάλλιστον καὶ ἐρασμιώτατον. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 461:2)
  • σὺ μὲν γὰρ ἐφ’ ἵππου ὀχῇ, ἐγὼ δὲ χαλεπῶσ κάμνω τὴν ἀσπίδα φέρων. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 4 49:3)
  • καὶ Ὄχη δὲ ἐκαλεῖτο ἡ νῆσοσ, καὶ ἔστιν ὁμώνυμον αὐτῇ τὸ μέγιστον τῶν ἐνταῦθα ὀρῶν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 1 4:7)
  • Κάρυστοσ δέ ἐστιν ὑπὸ τῷ ὄρει τῇ Ὄχῃ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 1 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. anything for holding or fastening

  2. the fastenings of the belt

  3. a bar to fasten

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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