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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from the same Pre-Greek root as τέραμνον (téramnon, “chamber”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰe.rá.pɔːn/ → /θeˈra.pon/ → /θeˈra.pon/
Noun
θερᾰ́πων • (therápōn) m (genitive θερᾰ́ποντος); third declension
- companion of lower rank, comrade, attendant, aide
- Synonym: ὀπάων (opáōn)
- servant, slave
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References
Further reading
- “θεράπων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θεράπων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “θεράπων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- θεράπων 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
- θεράπων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “θεράπων”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2324 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.
- “θεράπων”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011