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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From διδάσκω (didáskō, “to teach”). Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀇𐀅𐀏𐀩 (di-da-ka-re).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.dás.ka.los/ → /ðiˈðas.ka.los/ → /ðiˈðas.ka.los/
Noun
δῐδᾰ́σκᾰλος • (dĭdắskălos) m or f (genitive δῐδᾰσκᾰ́λου); second declension (Attic, Koine)
- teacher, master, director
Declension
ὁ, ἡ δῐδᾰ́σκᾰλος
ho, hē dĭdắskălos
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τὼ δῐδᾰσκᾰ́λω
tṑ dĭdăskắlō
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οἱ, αἱ δῐδᾰ́σκᾰλοι
hoi, hai dĭdắskăloi
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τοῦ, τῆς δῐδᾰσκᾰ́λου
toû, tês dĭdăskắlou
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τοῖν δῐδᾰσκᾰ́λοιν
toîn dĭdăskắloin
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τῶν δῐδᾰσκᾰ́λων
tôn dĭdăskắlōn
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τῷ, τῇ δῐδᾰσκᾰ́λῳ
tôi, têi dĭdăskắlōi
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τοῖν δῐδᾰσκᾰ́λοιν
toîn dĭdăskắloin
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τοῖς, ταῖς δῐδᾰσκᾰ́λοις
toîs, taîs dĭdăskắlois
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τὸν, τὴν δῐδᾰ́σκᾰλον
tòn, tḕn dĭdắskălon
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τὼ δῐδᾰσκᾰ́λω
tṑ dĭdăskắlō
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τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς δῐδᾰσκᾰ́λους
toùs, tā̀s dĭdăskắlous
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δῐδᾰ́σκᾰλε
dĭdắskăle
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δῐδᾰσκᾰ́λω
dĭdăskắlō
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δῐδᾰ́σκᾰλοι
dĭdắskăloi
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Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “διδάσκαλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “διδάσκαλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- διδάσκαλος 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
- διδάσκαλος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- G1320 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.
- admonisher idem, page 12.
- instructor idem, page 447.
- instructress idem, page 447.
- master idem, page 517.
- mistress idem, page 536.
- playwright idem, page 619.
- preceptor idem, page 634.
- preceptress idem, page 634.
- professor idem, page 653.
- school-master idem, page 739.
- school-mistress idem, page 739.
- teacher idem, page 859.
- tutor idem, page 903.
Greek
Noun
διδάσκαλος • (didáskalos) m (plural διδάσκαλοι, feminine διδασκάλισσα)
- (education) teacher
Declension