κατήγορος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κᾰτᾰ- (kata-, “against”) + the root of ᾰ̓γορεύω (agoreúō, “to speak”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ka.tɛ̌ː.ɡo.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kaˈte̝.ɡo.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /kaˈti.ɣo.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /kaˈti.ɣo.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kaˈti.ɣo.ros/
Noun
κᾰτήγορος • (katḗgoros) m (genitive κᾰτηγόρου); second declension (Attic, Ionic, Koine)
- accuser
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.71
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 814
- 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, Against Alcibiades 16
- 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, On the Olive Stump 11
- 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 18a
Declension
Second declension of ὁ κᾰτήγορος; τοῦ κᾰτηγόρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κᾰτήγορος ho katḗgoros | τὼ κᾰτηγόρω tṑ katēgórō | οἱ κᾰτήγοροι hoi katḗgoroi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κᾰτηγόρου toû katēgórou | τοῖν κᾰτηγόροιν toîn katēgóroin | τῶν κᾰτηγόρων tôn katēgórōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κᾰτηγόρῳ tôi katēgórōi | τοῖν κᾰτηγόροιν toîn katēgóroin | τοῖς κᾰτηγόροις toîs katēgórois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κᾰτήγορον tòn katḗgoron | τὼ κᾰτηγόρω tṑ katēgórō | τοὺς κᾰτηγόρους toùs katēgórous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κᾰτήγορε katḗgore | κᾰτηγόρω katēgórō | κᾰτήγοροι katḗgoroi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- δημόσῐος κᾰτήγορος (dēmósios katḗgoros)
- κᾰτηγορέω (katēgoréō)
- κᾰτηγορικός (katēgorikós)
Related terms
- ᾰ̓γείρω (ageírō)
Further reading
- “κατήγορος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press