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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From εἴρω (eírō, “I speak”). Consists of ῥή- (rhḗ-) + -τωρ (-tōr).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r̥ɛ̌ː.tɔːr/ → /ˈri.tor/ → /ˈri.tor/
Noun
ῥήτωρ • (rhḗtōr) m (genitive ῥήτορος, diminutive ῥητορίσκος); third declension
- orator, public speaker
- politician, statesman
- attorney, court advocate
- judge
- rhetorician
Inflection
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Descendants
References
- “ῥήτωρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥήτωρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥήτωρ 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
- G4489 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.