ῥαβδοῦχος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῥᾰ́βδος (rhábdos, “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 • (rhabdoûkhos) 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 rhabdoûkhos	τὼ ῥᾰβδούχω tṑ rhabdoúkhō	οἱ ῥᾰβδοῦχοι hoi rhabdoûkhoi
Genitive	τοῦ ῥᾰβδούχου toû rhabdoúkhou	τοῖν ῥᾰβδούχοιν toîn rhabdoúkhoin	τῶν ῥᾰβδούχων tôn rhabdoúkhōn
Dative	τῷ ῥᾰβδούχῳ tôi rhabdoúkhōi	τοῖν ῥᾰβδούχοιν toîn rhabdoúkhoin	τοῖς ῥᾰβδούχοις toîs rhabdoúkhois
Accusative	τὸν ῥᾰβδοῦχον tòn rhabdoûkhon	τὼ ῥᾰβδούχω tṑ rhabdoúkhō	τοὺς ῥᾰβδούχους toùs rhabdoúkhous
Vocative	ῥᾰβδοῦχε rhabdoûkhe	ῥᾰβδούχω rhabdoúkhō	ῥᾰβδοῦχοι rhabdoûkhoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀρχῐρᾰβδοῦχος (arkhirabdoûkhos)
• ῥᾰβδουχέω (rhabdoukhéō)
• ῥᾰβδουχῐ́ᾱ (rhabdoukhíā)

 

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