Λυκοῦργος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From λύκος (lúkos, “wolf”) +‎ -ουργός (-ourgós), literally “worker-wolf”; compare ἔργον (érgon, “work”) for the second element.(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) Or Λυκοῦργος < Λυκόοργος < ΛυκόFοργος [luko-worgos] from λύκος (lúkos, “wolf”) +‎ ἐέργω (eérgō, “shut out”), literally “shutting out the wolf”.^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ly.kûːr.ɡos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /lyˈkur.ɡos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /lyˈkur.ɣos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /lyˈkur.ɣos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /liˈkur.ɣos/

Proper noun

Λῠκοῦργος • (Lŭkoûrgos) m (genitive Λῠκούργου); second declension

a male given name, equivalent to English Lycurgus
in particular, the legendary lawgiver of Sparta Lycurgus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Λῠκοῦργος; τοῦ Λῠκούργου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Λῠκοῦργος ho Lŭkoûrgos
Genitive	τοῦ Λῠκούργου toû Lŭkoúrgou
Dative	τῷ Λῠκούργῳ tōî Lŭkoúrgōi
Accusative	τὸν Λῠκοῦργον tòn Lŭkoûrgon
Vocative	Λῠκοῦργε Lŭkoûrge
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Λῠκούργειᾰ (Lŭkoúrgeiă)

Descendants

Greek: Λυκούργος (Lykoúrgos)
Latin: Lycurgus

References

^ Calvert Watkins, How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics (Oxford: OUP, 1995), p. 388, n. 8.