τεῖχος

See also: τείχος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *téikʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, form, fashion”).^[1]

Cognates include Sanskrit देह (deha), Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬰𐬀 (daēza, “wall”), Latin fingō, and Old Armenian դէզ (dēz). Compare τοῖχος (toîkhos) and παράδεισος (parádeisos).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /têː.kʰos/ → /ˈti.xos/ → /ˈti.xos/

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

Noun

τεῖχος • (teîkhos) n (genitive τείχεος or τείχους); third declension

1. mound, earth works
2. wall (especially one enclosing a town or city)
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 227a
3. fortified city
4. fortification, castle

Declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ τεῖχος tò teîkhos	τὼ τείχει tṑ teíkhei	τᾰ̀ τείχη tà teíkhē
Genitive	τοῦ τείχους toû teíkhous	τοῖν τειχοῖν toîn teikhoîn	τῶν τειχῶν tôn teikhôn
Dative	τῷ τείχει tôi teíkhei	τοῖν τειχοῖν toîn teikhoîn	τοῖς τείχεσῐ / τείχεσῐν toîs teíkhesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ τεῖχος tò teîkhos	τὼ τείχει tṑ teíkhei	τᾰ̀ τείχη tà teíkhē
Vocative	τεῖχος teîkhos	τείχει teíkhei	τείχη teíkhē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of τὸ τεῖχος; τοῦ τείχους (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τεῖχος teîkhos	τείχει / τείχεε teíkhei / teíkhee	τείχεᾰ teíkhea
Genitive	τείχεος / τείχευς teíkheos / teíkheus	τειχέοιν teikhéoin	τειχέων teikhéōn
Dative	τείχει / τείχεῐ̈ teíkhei / teíkheï	τειχέοιν teikhéoin	τείχεσῐ / τείχεσῐν teíkhesi(n)
Accusative	τεῖχος teîkhos	τείχει / τείχεε teíkhei / teíkhee	τείχεᾰ teíkhea
Vocative	τεῖχος teîkhos	τείχει / τείχεε teíkhei / teíkhee	τείχεᾰ teíkhea
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Third declension of τεῖχος; τείχεος (Epic)

Derived terms

• εὐτείχεος (euteíkheos)
• τειχίζω (teikhízō)
• τειχοφῠ́λᾰξ (teikhophúlax)

 

Related terms

• τοῖχος (toîkhos)

Descendants

• Greek: τείχος (teíchos)

References

1. 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, pages 1458-9

Further reading

• “τεῖχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τεῖχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “τεῖχος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• τεῖχος 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
• τεῖχος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “τεῖχος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5038 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bulwark idem, page 103.
  • defence idem, page 204.
  • entrenchment idem, page 278.
  • fort idem, page 339.
  • rampart idem, page 670.
  • wall idem, page 960.