τράχηλος

Ancient Greek

Picture dictionary
τράχηλος κρανίον ἐγκέφαλος ὀφθαλμός χεῖλος ῥίς στόμα γένειον γνάθος οὖς κρόταφος τράχηλος
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Alternative forms

• τράχᾱλος (trákhālos) — Doric

Etymology

Unknown. Suggested as a Pre-Greek substrate word by Beekes.^[1] Compare θώραξ.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /trá.kʰɛː.los/ → /ˈtra.çi.los/ → /ˈtra.çi.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /trá.kʰɛː.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtra.kʰe̝.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈtra.çi.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈtra.çi.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈtra.çi.los/

Noun

τρᾰ́χηλος • (trákhēlos) m (genitive τρᾰχήλου); second declension

1. neck

   Synonym: αὐχήν (aukhḗn)

Declension

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ τρᾰ́χηλος ho trákhēlos
Genitive	τοῦ τρᾰχήλου toû trakhḗlou
Dative	τῷ τρᾰχήλῳ tôi trakhḗlōi
Accusative	τὸν τρᾰ́χηλον tòn trákhēlon
Vocative	τρᾰ́χηλε trákhēle
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Second declension of ὁ τρᾰ́χηλος; τοῦ τρᾰχήλου (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	τᾰ̀ τρᾰ́χηλᾰ tà trákhēla
Genitive	τῶν τρᾰχήλων tôn trakhḗlōn
Dative	τοῖς τρᾰχήλοις toîs trakhḗlois
Accusative	τᾰ̀ τρᾰ́χηλᾰ tà trákhēla
Vocative	τρᾰ́χηλᾰ trákhēla
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Second declension of τᾰ̀ τρᾰ́χηλᾰ; τῶν τρᾰχήλων (Attic)

Descendants

• → English: trachelo-

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, page 1501

Further reading

• “τράχηλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τράχηλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τράχηλος 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
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • neck idem, page 554.
  • throat idem, page 870.