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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From γράμμα (grámma, “writing”) + -εύς (-eús, masculine suffix of person concerned).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡram.ma.těu̯s/ → /ɣram.maˈteɸs/ → /ɣra.maˈtefs/
Noun
γραμματεύς • (grammateús) m (genitive γραμματέως); third declension
- secretary, registrar; clerk (title of officials in Greek poleis)
- scribe, scholar
Inflection
Derived terms
Further reading
- “γραμματεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “γραμματεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- γραμματεύς 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
- γραμματεύς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G1122 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.
- amanuensis idem, page 26.
- clerk idem, page 137.
- penman idem, page 603.
- quill-driver idem, page 667.
- recorder idem, page 681.
- scribbler idem, page 742.
- scribe idem, page 742.
- scrivener idem, page 742.
- secretary idem, page 747.
- town clerk idem, page 884.
- writer idem, page 993.