ταγός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *tāgós, from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- (“to order, arrange, establish”), like τάσσω (tássō, “to arrange, put in order”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /taː.ɡós/ → /taˈɣos/ → /taˈɣos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /taː.ɡós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /taˈɡos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /taˈɣos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /taˈɣos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /taˈɣos/

Noun

τᾱγός • (tāgós) m (genitive τᾱγοῦ); second declension

1. commander, ruler, chief
2. federal commander of the Thessalian League
3. (in the plural) college of magistrates in Thessaly
4. president of a phratry

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ τᾱγός; τοῦ τᾱγοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ τᾱγός ho tāgós	τὼ τᾱγώ tṑ tāgṓ	οἱ τᾱγοί hoi tāgoí
Genitive	τοῦ τᾱγοῦ toû tāgoû	τοῖν τᾱγοῖν toîn tāgoîn	τῶν τᾱγῶν tôn tāgôn
Dative	τῷ τᾱγῷ tôi tāgôi	τοῖν τᾱγοῖν toîn tāgoîn	τοῖς τᾱγοῖς toîs tāgoîs
Accusative	τὸν τᾱγόν tòn tāgón	τὼ τᾱγώ tṑ tāgṓ	τοὺς τᾱγούς toùs tāgoús
Vocative	τᾱγέ tāgé	τᾱγώ tāgṓ	τᾱγοί tāgoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Italian: tago

Further reading

• “ταγός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ταγός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ταγός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ταγός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN