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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐξηγέομαι (exēgéomai) + -τής (-tḗs).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ek.sɛː.ɡɛː.tɛ̌ːs/ → /ek.si.ʝiˈtis/ → /ek.si.ʝiˈtis/
Noun
ἐξηγητής • (exēgētḗs) m (genitive ἐξηγητοῦ); first declension
- leader
- adviser
- expounder, interpreter (of oracles, dreams etc.)
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- ἐξηγητής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ἐξηγητής”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “ἐξηγητής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- active agent idem, page 10.
- adviser idem, page 15.
- advocate idem, page 15.
- champion idem, page 123.
- commentator idem, page 147.
- counsellor idem, page 176.
- exponent idem, page 295.
- fomenter idem, page 332.
- interpreter idem, page 452.
- mover idem, page 545.
- moving spirit idem, page 545.
- prime idem, page 640.
- prompter idem, page 653.
- proposer idem, page 653.
- ringleader idem, page 716.
- suggester idem, page 836.