ῥήτωρ

Ancient Greek

Agent noun formation from εἴρω (eírō, “I speak”), synchronically analyzable as ῥή- (rhḗ-) +‎ -τωρ (-tōr).^[1]

ῥήτωρ • (rhḗtōr) m (genitive ῥήτορος, diminutive ῥητορίσκος); third declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῥήτωρ ho rhḗtōr	τὼ ῥήτορε tṑ rhḗtore	οἱ ῥήτορες hoi rhḗtores
Genitive	τοῦ ῥήτορος toû rhḗtoros	τοῖν ῥητόροιν toîn rhētóroin	τῶν ῥητόρων tôn rhētórōn
Dative	τῷ ῥήτορῐ tôi rhḗtori	τοῖν ῥητόροιν toîn rhētóroin	τοῖς ῥήτορσῐ / ῥήτορσῐν toîs rhḗtorsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν ῥήτορᾰ tòn rhḗtora	τὼ ῥήτορε tṑ rhḗtore	τοὺς ῥήτορᾰς toùs rhḗtoras
Vocative	ῥῆτορ rhêtor	ῥήτορε rhḗtore	ῥήτορες rhḗtores
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ῥήτωρ, -ορος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1284

“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.
- debater idem, page 199.
- orator idem, page 578.
- politician idem, page 625.
- professional idem, page 653.
- public idem, page 655.
- public speaker idem, page 655.
- rhetorician idem, page 712.
- speaker idem, page 799.
- statesman idem, page 812.