θᾶκος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

θῶκος (thôkos) — Ionic, Epic

Etymology

From the Hesychian gloss θάβακον (thábakon, “seat, throne”), it appears that this word was contracted from *θά(ϝ)ακος (*thá(w)akos). Connection with Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place”) as zero grade is impossible because of *θά(ϝ)ακος (*thá(w)akos). The word must be Pre-Greek, as was observed by Furnée. A suffix -ακ is frequent in Pre-Greek; the variation *-αϝ-/-οϝ- is normal in substrate words.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰâː.kos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰa.kos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈθa.kos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈθa.kos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈθa.kos/

Noun

θᾶκος • (thâkos) m (genitive θᾱ́κου); second declension

seat, chair
Synonyms: δίφρος (díphros), ἕδρα (hédra)
chair of office

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ θᾶκος; τοῦ θᾱ́κου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ θᾶκος ho thâkos	τὼ θᾱ́κω tṑ thā́kō	οἱ θᾶκοι hoi thâkoi
Genitive	τοῦ θᾱ́κου toû thā́kou	τοῖν θᾱ́κοιν toîn thā́koin	τῶν θᾱ́κων tôn thā́kōn
Dative	τῷ θᾱ́κῳ tôi thā́kōi	τοῖν θᾱ́κοιν toîn thā́koin	τοῖς θᾱ́κοις toîs thā́kois
Accusative	τὸν θᾶκον tòn thâkon	τὼ θᾱ́κω tṑ thā́kō	τοὺς θᾱ́κους toùs thā́kous
Vocative	θᾶκε thâke	θᾱ́κω thā́kō	θᾶκοι thâkoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

θακαθαλπάς (thakathalpás)
θακεῖον (thakeîon)
θακέω (thakéō)
θάκημα (thákēma)
θάκησις (thákēsis)
σύνθακος (súnthakos)

“θᾶκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“θᾶκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
θᾶκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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