στόχος

Ancient Greek

Uncertain.

Beekes tentatively derives the word from Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ- (“bar, pillar, rod”), and compares Proto-Balto-Slavic *stagas, whence Proto-Slavic *stogъ (“haystack”) and Lithuanian stãgaras (“long thin stalk”), as well as Proto-Germanic *stangō (“bar, rod, stake”).^[1] Compare also Proto-Germanic *stakkaz (“haystack”).

στόχος • (stókhos) m (genitive στόχου); second declension

pillar of brick
1. synonym of στοχάς (stokhás, “an erection of stone or wood for fixing net poles”)
2. butt, target
3. aim, aiming
4. guess, conjecture

Second declension of ὁ στόχος; τοῦ στόχου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ στόχος ho stókhos	τὼ στόχω tṑ stókhō	οἱ στόχοι hoi stókhoi
Genitive	τοῦ στόχου toû stókhou	τοῖν στόχοιν toîn stókhoin	τῶν στόχων tôn stókhōn
Dative	τῷ στόχῳ tōî stókhōi	τοῖν στόχοιν toîn stókhoin	τοῖς στόχοις toîs stókhois
Accusative	τὸν στόχον tòn stókhon	τὼ στόχω tṑ stókhō	τοὺς στόχους toùs stókhous
Vocative	στόχε stókhe	στόχω stókhō	στόχοι stókhoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “στόχος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1410

στόχος • (stóchos) m (plural στόχοι)