βρόχθος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from the same Pre-Greek root of βρόζαι (brózai) and βρόγχος (brónkhos). Compare English craw.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /brókʰ.tʰos/ → /ˈβrox.θos/ → /ˈvrox.θos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /brókʰ.tʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbrokʰ.tʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβrox.θos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvrox.θos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvrox.θos/

Noun

βρόχθος • (brókhthos) m (genitive βρόχθου); second declension

1. (anatomy) throat
2. gulp, draft, throatful

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ βρόχθος; τοῦ βρόχθου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βρόχθος ho brókhthos	τὼ βρόχθω tṑ brókhthō	οἱ βρόχθοι hoi brókhthoi
Genitive	τοῦ βρόχθου toû brókhthou	τοῖν βρόχθοιν toîn brókhthoin	τῶν βρόχθων tôn brókhthōn
Dative	τῷ βρόχθῳ tôi brókhthōi	τοῖν βρόχθοιν toîn brókhthoin	τοῖς βρόχθοις toîs brókhthois
Accusative	τὸν βρόχθον tòn brókhthon	τὼ βρόχθω tṑ brókhthō	τοὺς βρόχθους toùs brókhthous
Vocative	βρόχθε brókhthe	βρόχθω brókhthō	βρόχθοι brókhthoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• βροχθίζω (brokhthízō)
• βροχθισμός (brokhthismós)
• βροχθώδης (brokhthṓdēs)

 

Further reading

• “βρόχθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βρόχθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βρόχθος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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