διοικητής

Ancient Greek

From δῐοικέω (dĭoikéō, “to manage, administer”) +‎ -τής (-tḗs, masculine agentive suffix).

δῐοικητής • (dĭoikētḗs) m (genitive δῐοικητοῦ); first declension

First declension of ὁ δῐοικητής; τοῦ δῐοικητοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ δῐοικητής ho dĭoikētḗs	τὼ δῐοικητᾱ́ tṑ dĭoikētā́	οἱ δῐοικηταί hoi dĭoikētaí
Genitive	τοῦ δῐοικητοῦ toû dĭoikētoû	τοῖν δῐοικηταῖν toîn dĭoikētaîn	τῶν δῐοικητῶν tôn dĭoikētôn
Dative	τῷ δῐοικητῇ tōî dĭoikētēî	τοῖν δῐοικηταῖν toîn dĭoikētaîn	τοῖς δῐοικηταῖς toîs dĭoikētaîs
Accusative	τὸν δῐοικητήν tòn dĭoikētḗn	τὼ δῐοικητᾱ́ tṑ dĭoikētā́	τοὺς δῐοικητᾱ́ς toùs dĭoikētā́s
Vocative	δῐοικητᾰ́ dĭoikētắ	δῐοικητᾱ́ dĭoikētā́	δῐοικηταί dĭoikētaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Learned borrowing from Koine Greek διοικητής (dioikētḗs).^[1] By surface analysis, διοικώ (dioikó) +‎ -τής (-tís).

διοικητής • (dioikitís) m (plural διοικητές, feminine διοικήτρια)

chief administrator, governor (person in charge of administration)
διοικητής της κεντρικής τράπεζας ― dioikitís tis kentrikís trápezas ― governor of the central bank
(military) commander

^ διοικητής, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language