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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *tāgós, from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- (“to order, arrange, establish”), like τάσσω (tássō, “to arrange, put in order”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /taː.ɡós/ → /taˈɣos/ → /taˈɣos/
Noun
τᾱγός • (tāgós) m (genitive τᾱγοῦ); second declension
- commander, ruler, chief
- federal commander of the Thessalian League
- (in the plural) college of magistrates in Thessaly
- president of a phratry
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “ταγός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ταγός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ταγός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ταγός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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