Ancient Greek

Noun

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

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

Inflection

Derived terms

• τοξότης ‎(toxótēs, “archer”)

Descendants

• English: toxin
• Greek: τόξο n ‎(tóxo, “bow”)

References

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bow idem, page 91.