θώραξ

Probably a Pre-Greek substrate loan, hinted by the suffix -αξ-.

Cognate with θύραξ (thúrax), Mycenaean Greek 𐀵𐀨𐀐 (to-ra-ke), and possibly Latin lorico.

θώρᾱξ • (thṓrāx) m (genitive θώρᾱκος); third declension

1. corslet
2. coat of mail, cuirass

• → French: thorax
• Greek: θώρακας (thórakas)

• θώραξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• θώραξ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θώραξ 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
• θώραξ in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • armour idem, page 40.
  • breast-plate idem, page 96.
  • coat idem, page 141.
  • corselet idem, page 176.
  • cuirass idem, page 188.
  • hauberk idem, page 388.
  • mail idem, page 508.
• 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