τόξον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Possibly a cognate of Latin taxus or borrowed from Iranian: compare Persian تخش (taxš, “crossbow”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tók.son/ → /ˈtok.son/ → /ˈtok.son/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tók.son/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtok.son/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈtok.son/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈtok.son/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈtok.son/

Noun

τόξον • (tóxon) n (genitive τόξου); second declension

1. bow (weapon for shooting arrows)
2. rainbow
3. arc
4. anything which is bowed or arched

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ τόξον; τοῦ τόξου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ τόξον tò tóxon	τὼ τόξω tṑ tóxō	τᾰ̀ τόξᾰ tằ tóxă
Genitive	τοῦ τόξου toû tóxou	τοῖν τόξοιν toîn tóxoin	τῶν τόξων tôn tóxōn
Dative	τῷ τόξῳ tōî tóxōi	τοῖν τόξοιν toîn tóxoin	τοῖς τόξοις toîs tóxois
Accusative	τὸ τόξον tò tóxon	τὼ τόξω tṑ tóxō	τᾰ̀ τόξᾰ tằ tóxă
Vocative	τόξον tóxon	τόξω tóxō	τόξᾰ tóxă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀργυρότοξος (argurótoxos)
• τοξεύς (toxeús , “archer”)
• Τοξεύς (Toxeús)
• τοξικός (toxikós)
• τοξοθήκη (toxothḗkē)
• τοξότης (toxótēs , “archer”)

Descendants

• Greek: τόξο n (tóxo, “bow”)

See also

• βέλος (bélos, “arrow”)

References

• “τόξον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τόξον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “τόξον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• τόξον 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
• τόξον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “τόξον”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5115 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bow idem, page 91.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1493