παιδαγωγός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
παῖς (paîs, “child”) + ᾰ̓γωγός (ăgōgós, “guide, escort”)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pai̯.da.ɡɔː.ɡós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pɛ.da.ɡoˈɡos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pɛ.ða.ɣoˈɣos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pe.ða.ɣoˈɣos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pe.ða.ɣoˈɣos/
Noun
παιδᾰγωγός • (paidăgōgós) m (genitive παιδᾰγωγοῦ); second declension
- originally, a slave who accompanied a child to and from school
- schoolteacher, child tutor; pedagogue.
- guide, leader
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ παιδᾰγωγός ho paidăgōgós |
τὼ παιδᾰγωγώ tṑ paidăgōgṓ |
οἱ παιδᾰγωγοί hoi paidăgōgoí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ παιδᾰγωγοῦ toû paidăgōgoû |
τοῖν παιδᾰγωγοῖν toîn paidăgōgoîn |
τῶν παιδᾰγωγῶν tôn paidăgōgôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ παιδᾰγωγῷ tōî paidăgōgōî |
τοῖν παιδᾰγωγοῖν toîn paidăgōgoîn |
τοῖς παιδᾰγωγοῖς toîs paidăgōgoîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν παιδᾰγωγόν tòn paidăgōgón |
τὼ παιδᾰγωγώ tṑ paidăgōgṓ |
τοὺς παιδᾰγωγούς toùs paidăgōgoús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | παιδᾰγωγέ paidăgōgé |
παιδᾰγωγώ paidăgōgṓ |
παιδᾰγωγοί paidăgōgoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- παιδαγωγέω (paidagōgéō)
Descendants
- → Aramaic: פדגוגא
- Greek: παιδαγωγός (paidagogós)
- → Latin: paedagōgus (see there for further descendants)
- Russian: педаго́г (pedagóg)
- Hebrew פֶּדָגוֹג (pedagóg)
References
- “παιδαγωγός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “παιδαγωγός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- παιδαγωγός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G3807 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- παιδαγωγός in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek παιδαγωγός (paidagōgós, “slave with responsibility for a child”).
Noun
παιδαγωγός • (paidagogós) m or f (plural παιδαγωγοί)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | παιδαγωγός (paidagogós) | παιδαγωγοί (paidagogoí) |
| genitive | παιδαγωγού (paidagogoú) | παιδαγωγών (paidagogón) |
| accusative | παιδαγωγό (paidagogó) | παιδαγωγούς (paidagogoús) |
| vocative | παιδαγωγέ (paidagogé) | παιδαγωγοί (paidagogoí) |
Coordinate terms
- see: δάσκαλος m (dáskalos, “teacher”) for various types of teacher/instructor
Related terms
- see: παιδεία f (paideía, “education, instruction”)
Further reading
- παιδαγωγός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el