χόρτος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰortós (“enclosure”). Cognates include Sanskrit गृह (gṛhá), Latin hortus, and Old English ġeard (English yard).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰór.tos/ → /ˈxor.tos/ → /ˈxor.tos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰór.tos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰor.tos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈxor.tos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈxor.tos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈxor.tos/

Noun

χόρτος • (khórtos) m (genitive χόρτου); second declension

1. feeding place for animals, barn, pasture
2. foodstuff for animals, fodder, hay, grass

   Synonym: πόα (póa)

3. (in general) food

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ χόρτος; τοῦ χόρτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ χόρτος ho khórtos	τὼ χόρτω tṑ khórtō	οἱ χόρτοι hoi khórtoi
Genitive	τοῦ χόρτου toû khórtou	τοῖν χόρτοιν toîn khórtoin	τῶν χόρτων tôn khórtōn
Dative	τῷ χόρτῳ tôi khórtōi	τοῖν χόρτοιν toîn khórtoin	τοῖς χόρτοις toîs khórtois
Accusative	τὸν χόρτον tòn khórton	τὼ χόρτω tṑ khórtō	τοὺς χόρτους toùs khórtous
Vocative	χόρτε khórte	χόρτω khórtō	χόρτοι khórtoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• χορτάζω (khortázō)
• χορταῖος (khortaîos)
• χόρτασμα (khórtasma)
• χορτίον (khortíon)
• χορτόσπερμον (khortóspermon)
• χορτώδης (khortṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• Greek: χόρτο (chórto)

Further reading

• “χόρτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χόρτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “χόρτος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• χόρτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• χόρτος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “χόρτος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5528 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.
  • fodder idem, page 331.
  • food idem, page 333.
  • forage idem, page 334.
  • hay idem, page 389.
  • pabulum idem, page 587.
  • provender idem, page 654.