τράγος

From τρᾰ́γω (trắgō, “to gnaw, nibble”) +‎ -ος (-os, “nominal suffix”), literally “gnawer, eater (of sweets)”.^[1]

τρᾰ́γος • (trắgos) m (genitive τρᾰ́γου); second declension

1. billy-goat

   Τὴν αἶγα ὁ τράγος ἀγαπᾷ.

   Tḕn aîga ho trágos agapāî.

   The billy-goat loves the she-goat.

   Antonym: αἴξ (aíx)

   1. age when change of voice and other signs of puberty appears
      1. voice change that takes place in puberty
   2. lewdness, lechery
2. male sprat
3. spelt (Triticum spelta)
4. A rough kind of sponge.
5. (in Messenia) common fig Ficus carica)

   Synonym: ἐρῑνεός (erīneós)

6. wood horsetail (Equisetum sylvaticum)

   Synonym: ἐφέδρᾰ (ephédră)

7. stinking nard (Valeriana saxatilis)
8. (anatomy) part of the ear; tragus
9. A kind of light Lycian ship.
10. (astronomy) A kind of comet.
    1. (astronomy) One of the constellations of the δωδεκᾰ́ωρος (dōdekắōros).

• Tsakonian: τσ̌άο (tšáo)
• → Latin: tragus
  • → English: tragus

• “τράγος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τράγος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “τράγος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• τράγος 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
• τράγος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “τράγος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5131 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • goat idem, page 365.
• τράγος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾa.ɣos/

τράγος • (trágos) m (plural τράγοι)

1. billy goat, male goat
2. (anatomy) tragus
3. (colloquial, derogatory) sleaze, sleazeball, sleazebag (a lecherous man)
4. (colloquial, derogatory) priest (especially one with a long beard; compare: τραγόπαπας (tragópapas))

• αποδιοπομπαίος τράγος m (apodiopompaíos trágos, “scapegoat”)
• τράγειος m (trágeios, “goat, hircine”)
• τραγελαφικός m (tragelafikós, “grotesque”)
• τραγέλαφος m (tragélafos, “a fantastic creature, half goat and half deer”)

• γίδα f (gída, “goat”)
• κατσίκι n (katsíki, “kid (goat)”)