δοχή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From δέχομαι (dékhomai) +‎ -ή (-ḗ).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /do.kʰɛ̌ː/ → /ðoˈçi/ → /ðoˈçi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /do.kʰɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /doˈkʰe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ðoˈçi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðoˈçi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðoˈçi/

Noun

δοχή • (dokhḗ) f (genitive δοχῆς); first declension

1. receptacle
2. reception, feast
   • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of Luke 14:13:

     ἀλλ᾽ ὅταν ποιῇς δοχὴν κάλει πτωχούς ἀναπήρους, χωλούς τυφλούς

     But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind (KJV)

Declension

First declension of ἡ δοχή; τῆς δοχῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ δοχή hē dokhḗ	τὼ δοχᾱ́ tṑ dokhā́	αἱ δοχαί hai dokhaí
Genitive	τῆς δοχῆς tês dokhês	τοῖν δοχαῖν toîn dokhaîn	τῶν δοχῶν tôn dokhôn
Dative	τῇ δοχῇ têi dokhêi	τοῖν δοχαῖν toîn dokhaîn	ταῖς δοχαῖς taîs dokhaîs
Accusative	τὴν δοχήν tḕn dokhḗn	τὼ δοχᾱ́ tṑ dokhā́	τᾱ̀ς δοχᾱ́ς tā̀s dokhā́s
Vocative	δοχή dokhḗ	δοχᾱ́ dokhā́	δοχαί dokhaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἱστοδόκη (histodókē)

Descendants

• → Latin: doga (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• δοχή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• δοχή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “δοχή”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “δοχή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δοχή in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• G1403 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • receptacle idem, page 678.