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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ὁδός (hodós, “way, road, route”) and ἡγέομαι (hēgéomai, “to guide”), from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂gyeti (“to seek out, look for, track”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ho.dɛː.ɡós/ → /o.ðiˈɣos/ → /o.ðiˈɣos/
Noun
ὁδηγός • (hodēgós) m (genitive ὁδηγοῦ); second declension
- guide, helper, instructor, teacher; one who accompanies and shows the way
- guider, leader, conductor, driver, pilot; one who drives or leads the way forward
- Synonym: ὁδηγητήρ (hodēgētḗr)
Inflection
Descendants
- → Greek: οδηγός (odigós) (semi-learned)
Further reading
- “ὁδηγός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὁδηγός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὁδηγός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G3595 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- ὁδηγός in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- ὁδηγός - Kriaras, Emmanuel (1969-) Επιτομή του Λεξικού της Μεσαιωνικής Ελληνικής Δημώδους Γραμματείας (Epitomí tou Lexikoú tis Mesaionikís Ellinikís Dimódous Grammateías) (in Greek), Thessaloniki: Centre for the Greek language Online edition (abbreviations) Printed edition 2022: 22 vols.)