ὅρκος – Ancient Greek noun declension

Noun: ὅρκος
Hyphenation:

Gender: Masculine

Nominative

Genitive

Dative

Accusative

Vocative

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like ὅρκος

ῥόθος, ῥόμος, ἔβρος, ὄλβος, ὄγμος, ὄγκος, ὄχλος, ὄτλος, ὄρχος, ὄρρος, ὄκνος, ὅρμος, ὅρκος, ὅλμος, ὄζος, ὄχος, ὄνος, ὅρος,

Etymology

1. Traditionally taken as an o-grade nominal formation from Proto-Indo-European *serḱ- (“to mend, fence”), whence also ἕρκος (hérkos, “fence”), i.e. "the bounds that one assumes" > "obligation, oath".
2. However, this has been disputed, with dissenting theories treating the word as related instead to Latin surculus (“twig”), via a hypothetical earlier form *sorcus, *surcus, from which the Greek would have borrowed the Latin. Under this theory, the Greek would thus refer to a "wooden staff raised when swearing an oath". This appears more semantically tenuous, however, in addition to the Latin term being of uncertain origin.

Verbs referencing "ὅρκος"

Greek Nouns όρκος, English Nouns orcos.

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