θεράπων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from the same Pre-Greek root of τέραμνον (téramnon, “chamber”).

Pronunciation

Noun

θερᾰ́πων • (therápōn) m (genitive θερᾰ́ποντος); third declension

1. companion of lower rank, comrade, attendant, aide

   Synonym: ὀπάων (opáōn)

2. servant, slave

Inflection

Derived terms

• θεραπεύω (therapeúō)

References

• “θεράπων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θεράπων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “θεράπων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• θεράπων 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
• θεράπων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “θεράπων”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2324 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.
  • attendant idem, page 51.
  • courtier idem, page 179.
  • ministrant idem, page 531.
  • page idem, page 588.
  • retainer idem, page 706.
  • satellite idem, page 734.
  • servant idem, page 755.
  • servitor idem, page 756.
  • usher idem, page 940.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN