κατήγορος

From κᾰτᾰ- (kata-, “against”) + the root of ᾰ̓γορεύω (agoreúō, “to speak”).

κᾰτήγορος • (katḗgoros) m (genitive κᾰτηγόρου); second declension (Attic, Ionic, Koine)

1. accuser
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.71
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 814
   • 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, Against Alcibiades 16
   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, On the Olive Stump 11
   • 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 18a

• δημόσῐος κᾰτήγορος (dēmósios katḗgoros)
• κᾰτηγορέω (katēgoréō)
• κᾰτηγορικός (katēgorikós)

• ᾰ̓γείρω (ageírō)

• → Greek: κατήγορος (katígoros) (learned)

• “κατήγορος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Learned borrowing from Koine Greek κατήγορος (katḗgoros), from Ancient Greek κᾰτήγορος (katḗgoros, “accuser”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /kaˈti.ɣo.ɾos/
• Hyphenation: κα‧τή‧γο‧ρος

κατήγορος • (katígoros) m or f

1. accuser
2. (law) prosecutor, prosecuting attorney, prosecuting advocate, prosecution counsel

   δημόσιος κατήγορος ― dimósios katígoros ― public prosecutor

(masculine):

Second forms are formal.  (feminine):

Alternative nominate/accusative/vocative plural: κατήγορες

• εισαγγελέας m or f (eisangeléas)
• συνήγορος m or f (synígoros)