ῥήτωρ
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ῥήτηρ (rhḗtēr) – Epic
Etymology
From εἴρω (eírō, “I speak”). Consists of ῥή- (rhḗ-) + -τωρ (-tōr).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ɛ̌ː.tɔːr/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈre̝.tor/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈri.tor/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈri.tor/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈri.tor/
Noun
ῥήτωρ • (rhḗtōr) m (genitive ῥήτορος, diminutive ῥητορίσκος); third declension
- orator, public speaker
- politician, statesman
- attorney, court advocate
- judge
- rhetorician
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ ῥήτωρ; τοῦ ῥήτορος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ῥήτωρ ho rhḗtōr | τὼ ῥήτορε tṑ rhḗtore | οἱ ῥήτορες hoi rhḗtores | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ῥήτορος toû rhḗtoros | τοῖν ῥητόροιν toîn rhētóroin | τῶν ῥητόρων tôn rhētórōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ῥήτορῐ tôi rhḗtori | τοῖν ῥητόροιν toîn rhētóroin | τοῖς ῥήτορσῐ / ῥήτορσῐν toîs rhḗtorsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ῥήτορᾰ tòn rhḗtora | τὼ ῥήτορε tṑ rhḗtore | τοὺς ῥήτορᾰς toùs rhḗtoras | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῥῆτορ rhêtor | ῥήτορε rhḗtore | ῥήτορες rhḗtores | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ῥητορεία (rhētoreía, “oratory”)
- ῥητορεύω (rhētoreúō, “I speak publicly”)
- ῥητορικός (rhētorikós, “oratorical, rhetoric”)
Descendants
- Greek: ρήτορας (rítoras)
- → Latin: rhētor
- → English: rhetor
- → French: rhéteur
- Italian: retore
- Sicilian: rituri
- → Spanish: rétor
- → Polish: retor
- → Russian: ритор (ritor)
References
- “ῥήτωρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥήτωρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥήτωρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G4489 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- debater idem, page 199.
- orator idem, page 578.
- politician idem, page 625.
- professional idem, page 653.
- public idem, page 655.
- public speaker idem, page 655.
- rhetorician idem, page 712.
- speaker idem, page 799.
- statesman idem, page 812.