βήξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Furnée argues for a Pre-Greek origin in view of the variant πήχιον (pḗkhion) for βήχιον (bḗkhion), but the word might also be of onomatopoeic origin.^[1] Compare Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂s-, itself of imitative origin; in this case βήξ (bḗx) could point to a protoform *gʷeh₂(s)-gʰ-.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bɛ̌ːks/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbe̝ks/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβiks/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈviks/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈviks/

Noun

βήξ • (bḗx) m or f (genitive βηχός); third declension

cough

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ / ἡ βήξ; τοῦ / τῆς βηχός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ / ἡ βήξ ho / hē bḗx	τὼ βῆχε tṑ bêkhe	οἱ / αἱ βῆχες hoi / hai bêkhes
Genitive	τοῦ / τῆς βηχός toû / tês bēkhós	τοῖν βηχοῖν toîn bēkhoîn	τῶν βηχῶν tôn bēkhôn
Dative	τῷ / τῇ βηχῐ́ tōî / tēî bēkhĭ́	τοῖν βηχοῖν toîn bēkhoîn	τοῖς / ταῖς βηξῐ́ / βηξῐ́ν toîs / taîs bēxĭ́(n)
Accusative	τὸν / τὴν βῆχᾰ tòn / tḕn bêkhă	τὼ βῆχε tṑ bêkhe	τοὺς / τᾱ̀ς βῆχᾰς toùs / tā̀s bêkhăs
Vocative	βήξ bḗx	βῆχε bêkhe	βῆχες bêkhes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

βήξω (bḗxō)
βηχικός (bēkhikós)
βήχιον (bḗkhion)
βηχίον (bēkhíon)
βηχώδης (bēkhṓdēs)

Related terms

βήσσω (bḗssō)

Descendants

Greek: βήχας (víchas)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “βήξ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 212

“βήξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“βήξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
βήξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
βήξ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
βήξ, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “βήξ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 212

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