ὁδηγός

See also: οδηγός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὁδός (hodós, “way, road, route”) and ἡγέομαι (hēgéomai, “to guide”), from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂gyeti (“to seek out, look for, track”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ho.dɛː.ɡós/ → /o.ðiˈɣos/ → /o.ðiˈɣos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ho.dɛː.ɡós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)o.de̝ˈɡos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /o.ðiˈɣos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /o.ðiˈɣos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /o.ðiˈɣos/

Noun

ὁδηγός • (hodēgós) m (genitive ὁδηγοῦ); second declension

1. guide, helper, instructor, teacher; one who accompanies and shows the way
2. guider, leader, conductor, driver, pilot; one who drives or leads the way forward

   Synonym: ὁδηγητήρ (hodēgētḗr)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὁδηγός; τοῦ ὁδηγοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὁδηγός ho hodēgós	τὼ ὁδηγώ tṑ hodēgṓ	οἱ ὁδηγοί hoi hodēgoí
Genitive	τοῦ ὁδηγοῦ toû hodēgoû	τοῖν ὁδηγοῖν toîn hodēgoîn	τῶν ὁδηγῶν tôn hodēgôn
Dative	τῷ ὁδηγῷ tôi hodēgôi	τοῖν ὁδηγοῖν toîn hodēgoîn	τοῖς ὁδηγοῖς toîs hodēgoîs
Accusative	τὸν ὁδηγόν tòn hodēgón	τὼ ὁδηγώ tṑ hodēgṓ	τοὺς ὁδηγούς toùs hodēgoús
Vocative	ὁδηγέ hodēgé	ὁδηγώ hodēgṓ	ὁδηγοί hodēgoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• ὁδηγέω (hodēgéō)
• ὁδήγησις (hodḗgēsis)
• ὁδηγητήρ (hodēgētḗr)
• ὁδηγητής (hodēgētḗs)
• ὁδηγητικός (hodēgētikós)
• ὁδηγήτρια (hodēgḗtria)
• ὁδηγία (hodēgía)
• ὁδηγῶ (hodēgô)

 

Descendants

• → Greek: οδηγός (odigós) (semi-learned)

Further reading

• “ὁδηγός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὁδηγός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὁδηγός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G3595 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• ὁδηγός in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• ὁδηγός - Kriaras, Emmanuel (1969-) Επιτομή του Λεξικού της Μεσαιωνικής Ελληνικής Δημώδους Γραμματείας (Epitomí tou Lexikoú tis Mesaionikís Ellinikís Dimódous Grammateías) (in Greek), Thessaloniki: Centre for the Greek language Online edition (abbreviations) Printed edition 2022: 22 vols.)