τοξότης

See also: Τοξότης

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• τοξότᾱς (toxótās) — Doric

Etymology

τόξον (tóxon, “bow”) +‎ -της (-tēs, masculine suffix for person concerned with something)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tok.só.tɛːs/ → /tokˈso.tis/ → /tokˈso.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tok.só.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tokˈso.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /tokˈso.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tokˈso.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tokˈso.tis/

Noun

τοξότης • (toxótēs) m (genitive τοξότου); first declension (Epic, Ionic, Doric, Attic, Koine)

1. archer, bowman
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.385:

     τοξότα λωβητὴρ κέρᾳ ἀγλαὲ παρθενοπῖπα

     toxóta lōbētḕr kérāi aglaè parthenopîpa

     You archer, slanderer, lovely in head, eyer of maidens

   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.39
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.28
   • c. 440 BCE, Euripides, Rhesus 312
2. (astrology) Sagittarius, the Archer
   • 190 BCE – 120 BCE, Hipparchus, 1 2.20
3. (in the plural) city police of Athens
   • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 54
   • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 711
   • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 665
   • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, And. 3.5
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 319c
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians 24.3

Declension

First declension of ὁ τοξότης; τοῦ τοξότου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ τοξότης ho toxótēs	τὼ τοξότᾱ tṑ toxótā	οἱ τοξόται hoi toxótai
Genitive	τοῦ τοξότου toû toxótou	τοῖν τοξόταιν toîn toxótain	τῶν τοξοτῶν tôn toxotôn
Dative	τῷ τοξότῃ tôi toxótēi	τοῖν τοξόταιν toîn toxótain	τοῖς τοξόταις toîs toxótais
Accusative	τὸν τοξότην tòn toxótēn	τὼ τοξότᾱ tṑ toxótā	τοὺς τοξότᾱς toùs toxótās
Vocative	τοξότᾰ toxóta	τοξότᾱ toxótā	τοξόται toxótai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• (police-force in Athens): Σπευσίνιοι (Speusínioi), Σκύθαι (Skúthai)

Descendants

• → Laz: ტოკსირი (ťoǩsiri, “bow; cudgel, mace”)
• → Translingual: Toxotes (“archerfish”)
• → English: Toxotes (“Sagittarius”)

References

• τοξότης in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “τοξότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τοξότης (toxótēs).

Noun

τοξότης • (toxótis) m (plural τοξότες, feminine τοξότρια)

1. (archery) archer

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	τοξότης (toxótis)	τοξότες (toxótes)
genitive	τοξότη (toxóti)	τοξοτών (toxotón)
accusative	τοξότη (toxóti)	τοξότες (toxótes)
vocative	τοξότη (toxóti)	τοξότες (toxótes)

Coordinate terms

• see: τόξο n (tóxo, “bow”)

Related terms

• see: τόξο n (tóxo, “bow”)