ῥαβδοῦχος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῥᾰ́βδος (rhắbdos, “rod, staff”) +‎ ἔχω (ékhō, “to bear, carry, bring”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ab.dûː.kʰos/ → /raβˈðu.xos/ → /ravˈðu.xos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ab.dûː.kʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /rabˈdu.kʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /raβˈðu.xos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ravˈðu.xos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ravˈðu.xos/

Noun

ῥᾰβδοῦχος • (rhăbdoûkhos) m (genitive ῥᾰβδούχου); second declension

1. one who carries a rod or staff of office
2. judge, umpire at a contest
3. magistrate's attendant, staff-bearer, beadle
4. (at Rome) lictor who carried the fasces

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ῥᾰβδοῦχος; τοῦ ῥᾰβδούχου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῥᾰβδοῦχος ho rhăbdoûkhos	τὼ ῥᾰβδούχω tṑ rhăbdoúkhō	οἱ ῥᾰβδοῦχοι hoi rhăbdoûkhoi
Genitive	τοῦ ῥᾰβδούχου toû rhăbdoúkhou	τοῖν ῥᾰβδούχοιν toîn rhăbdoúkhoin	τῶν ῥᾰβδούχων tôn rhăbdoúkhōn
Dative	τῷ ῥᾰβδούχῳ tôi rhăbdoúkhōi	τοῖν ῥᾰβδούχοιν toîn rhăbdoúkhoin	τοῖς ῥᾰβδούχοις toîs rhăbdoúkhois
Accusative	τὸν ῥᾰβδοῦχον tòn rhăbdoûkhon	τὼ ῥᾰβδούχω tṑ rhăbdoúkhō	τοὺς ῥᾰβδούχους toùs rhăbdoúkhous
Vocative	ῥᾰβδοῦχε rhăbdoûkhe	ῥᾰβδούχω rhăbdoúkhō	ῥᾰβδοῦχοι rhăbdoûkhoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀρχῐρᾰβδοῦχος (arkhĭrăbdoûkhos)
• ῥᾰβδουχέω (rhăbdoukhéō)
• ῥᾰβδουχῐ́ᾱ (rhăbdoukhĭ́ā)

Further reading

• “ῥαβδοῦχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥαβδοῦχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ῥαβδοῦχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette