ὅρκιον

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hór.ki.on/ → /ˈor.ci.on/ → /ˈor.ci.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hór.ki.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)or.ki.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈor.ci.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈor.ci.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈor.ci.on/

Noun

ὅρκῐον • (hórkion) n (genitive ὁρκίου); second declension

1. oath

   Synonym: ὅρκος (hórkos)

2. pledge, surety
3. treaty
4. victim sacrificed to mark the settlement of an oath or treaty

Declension

Second declension of τὸ ὅρκῐον; τοῦ ὁρκῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὅρκῐον tò hórkion	τὼ ὁρκῐ́ω tṑ horkíō	τᾰ̀ ὅρκῐᾰ tà hórkia
Genitive	τοῦ ὁρκῐ́ου toû horkíou	τοῖν ὁρκῐ́οιν toîn horkíoin	τῶν ὁρκῐ́ων tôn horkíōn
Dative	τῷ ὁρκῐ́ῳ tôi horkíōi	τοῖν ὁρκῐ́οιν toîn horkíoin	τοῖς ὁρκῐ́οις toîs horkíois
Accusative	τὸ ὅρκῐον tò hórkion	τὼ ὁρκῐ́ω tṑ horkíō	τᾰ̀ ὅρκῐᾰ tà hórkia
Vocative	ὅρκῐον hórkion	ὁρκῐ́ω horkíō	ὅρκῐᾰ hórkia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Adjective

ὅρκῐον • (hórkion)

1. inflection of ὅρκῐος (hórkios):
   1. accusative singular masculine
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative singular neuter

Further reading

• ὅρκιον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ὅρκιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • oath idem, page 564.
  • swearing idem, page 847.