τράγος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Agent noun formed from τράγω (trágō) +‎ -ος (-os), a Doric form of τρώγω (trṓgō, “gnaw, nibble”), possibly of origin or perhaps cognate with Old Armenian արածեմ (aracem).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /trá.ɡos/ → /ˈtra.ɣos/ → /ˈtra.ɣos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /trá.ɡos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtra.ɡos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈtra.ɣos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈtra.ɣos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈtra.ɣos/

Noun

τρᾰ́γος • (trágos) m (genitive τρᾰ́γου); second declension

1. a male goat
   1. the age of puberty
      1. the voice change that takes place in puberty
   2. lewdness, lechery
2. the male of the μαινίς fish
3. spelt grain
4. a rough kind of sponge
5. the wild fig
6. the tragus, part of the ear
7. a kind of Lycian ship
8. a kind of comet

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ τρᾰ́γος; τοῦ τρᾰ́γου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ τρᾰ́γος ho trágos	τὼ τρᾰ́γω tṑ trágō	οἱ τρᾰ́γοι hoi trágoi
Genitive	τοῦ τρᾰ́γου toû trágou	τοῖν τρᾰ́γοιν toîn trágoin	τῶν τρᾰ́γων tôn trágōn
Dative	τῷ τρᾰ́γῳ tôi trágōi	τοῖν τρᾰ́γοιν toîn trágoin	τοῖς τρᾰ́γοις toîs trágois
Accusative	τὸν τρᾰ́γον tòn trágon	τὼ τρᾰ́γω tṑ trágō	τοὺς τρᾰ́γους toùs trágous
Vocative	τρᾰ́γε tráge	τρᾰ́γω trágō	τρᾰ́γοι trágoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• τράγαινα (trágaina)
• τράγινος (tráginos)
• τραγοπώγων (tragopṓgōn)

 

Further reading

• “τράγος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τράγος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “τράγος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• τράγος 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
• τράγος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “τράγος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5131 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • goat idem, page 365.

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Greek

Noun

τράγος • (trágos) m (plural τράγοι)

1. billy goat, male goat
2. (anatomy) tragus
3. (colloquial, derogatory) sleaze, sleazeball, sleazebag (a lecherous man)
4. (colloquial, derogatory) priest (especially one with a long beard; compare: τραγόπαπας (tragópapas))

Declension

Declension of τράγος

	singular	plural
nominative	τράγος •	τράγοι •
genitive	τράγου •	τράγων •
accusative	τράγο •	τράγους •
vocative	τράγε •	τράγοι •

Derived terms

• αποδιοπομπαίος τράγος m (apodiopompaíos trágos, “scapegoat”)
• τράγειος m (trágeios, “goat, hircine”)
• τραγελαφικός m (tragelafikós, “grotesque”)
• τραγέλαφος m (tragélafos, “a fantastic creature, half goat and half deer”)

See also

• γίδα f (gída, “goat”)
• κατσίκι n (katsíki, “kid (goat)”)