Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ᾰ̓κοίτη ‎(akoítē)

Noun

ᾰ̓́κοιτῐς • ‎(ákoitis) f ‎(genitive ᾰ̓κοίτῐος); third declension

1. (affectionate) a female bedfellow, a wife
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.138
   • 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Bacchylides, Collected Works 5.169
   • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 684

Declension

Coordinate terms

• ᾰ̓κοίτης ‎(akoítēs, “a [male] bedfellow”, “a husband”)

Synonyms

• (a wife): ἄλοχος ‎(álokhos)

Descendants

• Latin: acoetis

References

• ἄκοιτις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄκοιτις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἄκοιτις in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἄκοιτις» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἄκοιτις» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «ἄκοιτις» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• ἄκοιτις in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bedfellow idem, page 69.
  • consort idem, page 164.
  • spouse idem, page 805.
  • wife idem, page 978.