ῥήτωρ
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Agent noun formation from εἴρω (eírō, “I speak”), synchronically analyzable as ῥή- (rhḗ-) + -τωρ (-tōr).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ɛ̌ː.tɔːr/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈre̝.tor/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈri.tor/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈri.tor/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈri.tor/
Noun
[edit]ῥήτωρ • (rhḗtōr) m (genitive ῥήτορος, diminutive ῥητορίσκος); third declension
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- ῥητορεία (rhētoreía, “oratory”)
- ῥητορεύω (rhētoreúō, “I speak publicly”)
- ῥητορικός (rhētorikós, “oratorical, rhetoric”)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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
Further reading
[edit]- “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[1], 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.
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *werh₁-
- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -τωρ
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension