diadochos

== Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek διάδοχος (diádokhos, “successor, substitute”), from δια- (dia-, “through”) + δοχός (dokhós, “containing, able to hold; a receptacle”) from δέχομαι (dékhomai, “to take, receive”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [diˈa.dɔ.kʰɔs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [diˈaː.do.kos] === Noun === diadochos m (genitive diadochī); second declension A precious stone resembling the beryl ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (Greek-type). === References === “diadochos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “diadochos”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.