τόξον

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

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

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

• τοξικός (toxikós)
• τοξότης (toxótēs, “archer”)

• Greek: τόξο n (tóxo, “bow”)

• βέλος (bélos, “arrow”)

• “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