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Ancient Greek
Etymology
παῖς (paîs, “child”) + ᾰ̓γωγός (agōgós, “guide, escort”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pai̯.da.ɡɔː.ɡós/ → /pɛ.ða.ɣoˈɣos/ → /pe.ða.ɣoˈɣos/
Noun
παιδᾰγωγός • (paidagōgós) m (genitive παιδᾰγωγοῦ); second declension
- originally, a slave who accompanied a child to and from school
- schoolteacher, child tutor; pedagogue.
- guide, leader
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
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, 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)
- (education) educationalist
- guide, guru
Declension
Coordinate terms
- see: δάσκαλος m (dáskalos, “teacher”) for various types of teacher/instructor
- see: παιδεία f (paideía, “education, instruction”)
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