διάκονος
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
δῐᾰ- (dĭă-) + Proto-Indo-European *kón-os, from *ken- (“to set oneself in motion”). The length of the ᾱ (ā) is explained by Brugmann and Boisacq as by analogy to long vowels that occurred in compounds where the second element started with a vowel.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /di.ǎː.ko.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /diˈa.ko.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ðiˈa.ko.nos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ðiˈa.ko.nos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ðiˈa.ko.nos/
Noun
δῐᾱ́κονος • (dĭā́konos) m or f (genitive δῐᾱκόνου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ δῐᾱ́κονος ho dĭā́konos |
τὼ δῐᾱκόνω tṑ dĭākónō |
οἱ δῐᾱ́κονοι hoi dĭā́konoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ δῐᾱκόνου toû dĭākónou |
τοῖν δῐᾱκόνοιν toîn dĭākónoin |
τῶν δῐᾱκόνων tôn dĭākónōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ δῐᾱκόνῳ tôi dĭākónōi |
τοῖν δῐᾱκόνοιν toîn dĭākónoin |
τοῖς δῐᾱκόνοις toîs dĭākónois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν δῐᾱ́κονον tòn dĭā́konon |
τὼ δῐᾱκόνω tṑ dĭākónō |
τοὺς δῐᾱκόνους toùs dĭākónous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | δῐᾱ́κονε dĭā́kone |
δῐᾱκόνω dĭākónō |
δῐᾱ́κονοι dĭā́konoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀρχῐδῐᾱ́κονος (arkhĭdĭā́konos)
- δῐᾱκονέω (dĭākonéō)
- δῐᾱκόνημᾰ (dĭākónēmă)
- δῐᾱκόνησῐς (dĭākónēsĭs)
- δῐᾱκονητῐκός (dĭākonētĭkós)
- δῐᾱκονῐ́ᾱ (dĭākonĭ́ā)
- δῐᾱκονῐκός (dĭākonĭkós)
- δῐᾱκονῐ́ομαι (dĭākonĭ́omai)
- δῐᾱκόνῐον (dĭākónĭon)
- δῐᾱκονῐ́ς (dĭākonĭ́s)
- δῐᾱκόνῐσσᾰ (dĭākónĭssă)
Descendants
- Greek: διάκονος (diákonos), διάκος (diákos)
- Mariupol Greek: дъя́кос (ðjákos)
- → Albanian: dhjak
- → Coptic: ⲇⲓⲁⲕⲱⲛ (diakōn)
- → Gothic: 𐌳𐌹𐌰𐌺𐌰𐌿𐌽𐌿𐍃 (diakaunus)
- → Latin: diaconus (see there for further descendants)
- → Middle Armenian: դիակոն (diakon)
- → Old Georgian: დიაკონი (diaḳoni)
- → Romanian: diacon
- → Russian: диакон (diakon), дьякон (dʹjakon), дьяк (dʹjak)
- → Ukrainian: диякон (dyjakon), дяк (djak)
Further reading
- “διάκονος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “διάκονος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- διάκονος 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
- διάκονος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- G1249 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Etymology
From Koine Greek διάκονος (diákonos)
Noun
διάκονος • (diákonos) m (plural διάκονοι, feminine διακόνισσα)
- (chistianity) deacon
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | διάκονος (diákonos) | διάκονοι (diákonoi) |
| genitive | διάκονου (diákonou) διακόνου (diakónou) |
διάκονων (diákonon) διακόνων (diakónon) |
| accusative | διάκονο (diákono) | διάκονους (diákonous) διακόνους (diakónous) |
| vocative | διάκονε (diákone) | διάκονοι (diákonoi) |
Second forms are formal.
Related terms
- αρχιδιάκονος m (archidiákonos, “archdeacon”)
Further reading
διάκονος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el- διάκονος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
