διοικητής
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From δῐοικέω (dioikéō, “to manage, administer”) + -τής (-tḗs, masculine agentive suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /di.oi̯.kɛː.tɛ̌ːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /di.y.ke̝ˈte̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ði.y.ciˈtis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ði.y.ciˈtis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ði.i.ciˈtis/
Noun
δῐοικητής • (dioikētḗs) m (genitive δῐοικητοῦ); first declension
- administrator, governor, treasurer
- (in Egypt) chief financial official
- (astrology) controller, of the seven planets
Inflection
First declension of ὁ δῐοικητής; τοῦ δῐοικητοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ δῐοικητής ho dioikētḗs | τὼ δῐοικητᾱ́ tṑ dioikētā́ | οἱ δῐοικηταί hoi dioikētaí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ δῐοικητοῦ toû dioikētoû | τοῖν δῐοικηταῖν toîn dioikētaîn | τῶν δῐοικητῶν tôn dioikētôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ δῐοικητῇ tôi dioikētêi | τοῖν δῐοικηταῖν toîn dioikētaîn | τοῖς δῐοικηταῖς toîs dioikētaîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν δῐοικητήν tòn dioikētḗn | τὼ δῐοικητᾱ́ tṑ dioikētā́ | τοὺς δῐοικητᾱ́ς toùs dioikētā́s | ||||||||||
Vocative | δῐοικητᾰ́ dioikētá | δῐοικητᾱ́ dioikētā́ | δῐοικηταί dioikētaí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- δῐοικητῐκός (dioikētikós)
Further reading
- “διοικητής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- διοικητής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- διοικητής in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)