στόχος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain.

Beekes tentatively derives the word from Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ- (“bar, pillar, rod”), and compares Proto-Balto-Slavic *stagas, whence Proto-Slavic *stogъ (“haystack”) and Lithuanian stãgaras (“long thin stalk”), as well as Proto-Germanic *stangō (“bar, rod, stake”).[1]

Other theories compare the word with στοῖχος (stoîkhos, “row in an ascending series, column”), στίχος (stíkhos, “row or file of soldiers, line of poetry, verse”), from στείχω (steíkhō, “walk, march, go or come, march in line or order”), from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- (“to walk”). If from this root, cognate with German steigen; English sty, stair, stile; and possibly Latin vestīgō.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

στόχος • (stókhos) m (genitive στόχου); second declension

  1. pillar of brick
    1. Synonym of στοχάς (stokhás, “an erection of stone or wood for fixing net poles”)
    2. butt, target
    3. aim, aiming
    4. guess, conjecture

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ στόχος; τοῦ στόχου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ στόχος
ho stókhos		 τὼ στόχω
tṑ stókhō		 οἱ στόχοι
hoi stókhoi
Genitive τοῦ στόχου
toû stókhou		 τοῖν στόχοιν
toîn stókhoin		 τῶν στόχων
tôn stókhōn
Dative τῷ στόχῳ
tôi stókhōi		 τοῖν στόχοιν
toîn stókhoin		 τοῖς στόχοις
toîs stókhois
Accusative τὸν στόχον
tòn stókhon		 τὼ στόχω
tṑ stókhō		 τοὺς στόχους
toùs stókhous
Vocative στόχε
stókhe		 στόχω
stókhō		 στόχοι
stókhoi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Greek: στόχος (stóchos)

References
  1. 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, page 1410

Further reading

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek στόχος (stókhos).

Noun

στόχος • (stóchos) m (plural στόχοι)

  1. (archery) target
  2. aim, intent

Declension
declension of στόχος
case     \     number singular plural
nominative στόχος • στόχοι •
genitive στόχου • στόχων •
accusative στόχο • στόχους •
vocative στόχε • στόχοι •

Synonyms
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