αὐχμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, a compound of αὖος (aûos, “dry”) and an element "-χμ-" from the word for earth (see χθών (khthṓn, “ground, soil”)). A similar formation can be found in νεοχμός (neokhmós, “new”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /au̯kʰ.mós/ → /aɸxˈmos/ → /afxˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /au̯kʰ.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aʍkʰˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aɸxˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /afxˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /afxˈmos/

Noun

αὐχμός • (aukhmós) m (genitive αὐχμοῦ); second declension

1. drought, dearth
2. squalor, as effect of drought
3. dryness, meagreness (of style)
4. thirst

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ αὐχμός; τοῦ αὐχμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ αὐχμός ho aukhmós	τὼ αὐχμώ tṑ aukhmṓ	οἱ αὐχμοί hoi aukhmoí
Genitive	τοῦ αὐχμοῦ toû aukhmoû	τοῖν αὐχμοῖν toîn aukhmoîn	τῶν αὐχμῶν tôn aukhmôn
Dative	τῷ αὐχμῷ tôi aukhmôi	τοῖν αὐχμοῖν toîn aukhmoîn	τοῖς αὐχμοῖς toîs aukhmoîs
Accusative	τὸν αὐχμόν tòn aukhmón	τὼ αὐχμώ tṑ aukhmṓ	τοὺς αὐχμούς toùs aukhmoús
Vocative	αὐχμέ aukhmé	αὐχμώ aukhmṓ	αὐχμοί aukhmoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• αὐχμαλέος (aukhmaléos)
• αὐχμέω (aukhméō)
• αὐχμή (aukhmḗ)
• αὐχμήεις (aukhmḗeis)
• αὐχμηρός (aukhmērós)
• αὐχμώδης (aukhmṓdēs)
• αὔχμωσις (aúkhmōsis)

 

Further reading

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