στίχος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From στείχω (steíkhō, “walk, march, go or come, march in line or order”), from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- (“to walk”). Cognate with German steigen, English sty, stair, stile and possibly Latin vestīgō. See also στοῖχος (stoîkhos, “row in an ascending series, column”), στόχος (stókhos, “pillar of brick”), and στίξ (stíx, “row, line, rank, file (of soldiers)”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

στῐ́χος • (stíkhos) m (genitive στῐ́χου); second declension

  1. a row or file of soldiers
  2. a line of poetry, a verse

Declension
Second declension of ὁ στῐ́χος; τοῦ στῐ́χου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ στῐ́χος
ho stíkhos		 τὼ στῐ́χω
tṑ stíkhō		 οἱ στῐ́χοι
hoi stíkhoi
Genitive τοῦ στῐ́χου
toû stíkhou		 τοῖν στῐ́χοιν
toîn stíkhoin		 τῶν στῐ́χων
tôn stíkhōn
Dative τῷ στῐ́χῳ
tôi stíkhōi		 τοῖν στῐ́χοιν
toîn stíkhoin		 τοῖς στῐ́χοις
toîs stíkhois
Accusative τὸν στῐ́χον
tòn stíkhon		 τὼ στῐ́χω
tṑ stíkhō		 τοὺς στῐ́χους
toùs stíkhous
Vocative στῐ́χε
stíkhe		 στῐ́χω
stíkhō		 στῐ́χοι
stíkhoi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • ἡμιστίχιον (hēmistíkhion)
  • κατάστιχον (katástikhon) (Byzantine Greek)
  • τετράστιχος (tetrástikhos)

Descendants

Further reading

Greek

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek στίχος (stíkhos).

Noun

στίχος • (stíchos) m (plural στίχοι)

  1. a line of text, usually verse
  2. verse, poetry
  3. (in the plural) lyrics

Declension
declension of στίχος
singular plural
nominative στίχος • στίχοι •
genitive στίχου • στίχων •
accusative στίχο • στίχους •
vocative στίχε • στίχοι •

See also
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