μαστροπός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μᾰστροφός (mastrophós)

Etymology

The usual connection with μαίομαι (maíomai, “to touch, investigate”) is uncertain, as the variant with -φ- may point to a Pre-Greek word. Furnée further compares μάτρυλλος (mátrullos, “pimp”), with a variation -σ-/zero.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mas.tro.pós/ → /mas.troˈpos/ → /mas.troˈpos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mas.tro.pós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /mas.troˈpos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /mas.troˈpos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mas.troˈpos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mas.troˈpos/

Noun

μᾰστροπός • (mastropós) m or f (genitive μᾰστροποῦ); second declension

1. pimp or procuress

   Synonym: μᾰ́τρῠλλος (mátrullos)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ, ἡ μᾰστροπός; τοῦ, τῆς μᾰστροποῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ μᾰστροπός ho, hē mastropós	τὼ μᾰστροπώ tṑ mastropṓ	οἱ, αἱ μᾰστροποί hoi, hai mastropoí
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς μᾰστροποῦ toû, tês mastropoû	τοῖν μᾰστροποῖν toîn mastropoîn	τῶν μᾰστροπῶν tôn mastropôn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ μᾰστροπῷ tôi, têi mastropôi	τοῖν μᾰστροποῖν toîn mastropoîn	τοῖς, ταῖς μᾰστροποῖς toîs, taîs mastropoîs
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν μᾰστροπόν tòn, tḕn mastropón	τὼ μᾰστροπώ tṑ mastropṓ	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς μᾰστροπούς toùs, tā̀s mastropoús
Vocative	μᾰστροπέ mastropé	μᾰστροπώ mastropṓ	μᾰστροποί mastropoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μᾰστροπείᾱ (mastropeíā)
• μᾰστροπεύω (mastropeúō)
• μᾰστροπώδης (mastropṓdēs)
• μᾰστροπῐκός (mastropikós)
• μᾰστροπῐ́ς (mastropís)

 

Descendants

• Greek: μαστροπός (mastropós)

Further reading

• “μαστροπός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μαστροπός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μαστροπός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Greek

Alternative forms

• μαστρωπός m (mastropós)

Noun

μαστροπός • (mastropós) m (plural μαστροποί)

1. pimp (prostitution)

Declension

Declension of μαστροπός

	singular	plural
nominative	μαστροπός •	μαστροποί •
genitive	μαστροπού •	μαστροπών •
accusative	μαστροπό •	μαστροπούς •
vocative	μαστροπέ •	μαστροποί •

Synonyms

• προαγωγός m (proagogós)
• νταβατζής m (ntavatzís)