παιδαγωγός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

παῖς (paîs, “child”) +‎ ᾰ̓γωγός (agōgós, “guide, escort”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pai̯.da.ɡɔː.ɡós/ → /pɛ.ða.ɣoˈɣos/ → /pe.ða.ɣoˈɣos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pai̯.da.ɡɔː.ɡós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pɛ.da.ɡoˈɡos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pɛ.ða.ɣoˈɣos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pe.ða.ɣoˈɣos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pe.ða.ɣoˈɣos/

Noun

παιδᾰγωγός • (paidagōgós) m (genitive παιδᾰγωγοῦ); second declension

1. originally, a slave who accompanied a child to and from school
2. teacher, tutor
3. guide, leader

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ παιδᾰγωγός; τοῦ παιδᾰγωγοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ παιδᾰγωγός ho paidagōgós	τὼ παιδᾰγωγώ tṑ paidagōgṓ	οἱ παιδᾰγωγοί hoi paidagōgoí
Genitive	τοῦ παιδᾰγωγοῦ toû paidagōgoû	τοῖν παιδᾰγωγοῖν toîn paidagōgoîn	τῶν παιδᾰγωγῶν tôn paidagōgôn
Dative	τῷ παιδᾰγωγῷ tôi paidagōgôi	τοῖν παιδᾰγωγοῖν toîn paidagōgoîn	τοῖς παιδᾰγωγοῖς toîs paidagōgoîs
Accusative	τὸν παιδᾰγωγόν tòn paidagōgón	τὼ παιδᾰγωγώ tṑ paidagōgṓ	τοὺς παιδᾰγωγούς toùs paidagōgoús
Vocative	παιδᾰγωγέ paidagōgé	παιδᾰγωγώ paidagōgṓ	παιδᾰγωγοί paidagōgoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• παιδαγωγέω (paidagōgéō)

Descendants

• → Aramaic: פדגוגא
• Greek: παιδαγωγός (paidagogós)
• → Latin: paedagōgus (see there for further descendants)
• Russian: педаго́г (pedagóg)
• Hebrew פֶּדָגוֹג (pedagóg)

References

• “παιδαγωγός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “παιδαγωγός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• παιδαγωγός 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
• G3807 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• παιδαγωγός in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • attendant idem, page 51.
  • nurse idem, page 563.
  • school idem, page 739.
  • servant idem, page 755.
  • tutor idem, page 903.
  • usher idem, page 940.

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Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παιδαγωγός (paidagōgós, “slave with responsibility for a child”).

Noun

παιδαγωγός • (paidagogós) m or f (plural παιδαγωγοί)

1. (education) educationalist
2. guide, guru

Declension

Declension of παιδαγωγός

	singular	plural
nominative	παιδαγωγός •	παιδαγωγοί •
genitive	παιδαγωγού •	παιδαγωγών •
accusative	παιδαγωγό •	παιδαγωγούς •
vocative	παιδαγωγέ •	παιδαγωγοί •

Related terms

• αδιαπαιδαγώγητος (adiapaidagógitos, “uneducated”)
• παιδαγώγηση f (paidagógisi, “erudition, learning”)
• παιδαγωγία f (paidagogía, “pedagogy”)
• παιδαγωγική f (paidagogikí, “pedagogy”)
• παιδαγωγικός (paidagogikós, “pedagogic, pedagogical, educational”)
• παιδαγωγώ (paidagogó, “teach”)
• παιδεία f (paideía, “education, instruction”)