ἐξηγητής

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐξηγέομαι (exēgéomai) +‎ -τής (-tḗs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ek.sɛː.ɡɛː.tɛ̌ːs/ → /ek.si.ʝiˈtis/ → /ek.si.ʝiˈtis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ek.sɛː.ɡɛː.tɛ̌ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ek.se̝.ɡe̝ˈte̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ek.si.ʝiˈtis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ek.si.ʝiˈtis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ek.si.ʝiˈtis/

Noun

ἐξηγητής • (exēgētḗs) m (genitive ἐξηγητοῦ); first declension

1. leader
2. adviser
3. expounder, interpreter (of oracles, dreams etc.)

Declension

First declension of ὁ ἐξηγητής; τοῦ ἐξηγητοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἐξηγητής ho exēgētḗs	τὼ ἐξηγητᾱ́ tṑ exēgētā́	οἱ ἐξηγηταί hoi exēgētaí
Genitive	τοῦ ἐξηγητοῦ toû exēgētoû	τοῖν ἐξηγηταῖν toîn exēgētaîn	τῶν ἐξηγητῶν tôn exēgētôn
Dative	τῷ ἐξηγητῇ tôi exēgētêi	τοῖν ἐξηγηταῖν toîn exēgētaîn	τοῖς ἐξηγηταῖς toîs exēgētaîs
Accusative	τὸν ἐξηγητήν tòn exēgētḗn	τὼ ἐξηγητᾱ́ tṑ exēgētā́	τοὺς ἐξηγητᾱ́ς toùs exēgētā́s
Vocative	ἐξηγητᾰ́ exēgētá	ἐξηγητᾱ́ exēgētā́	ἐξηγηταί exēgētaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• → Catalan: exegeta
• → Dutch: exegeet
• → English: exegete
• → Finnish: eksegeetti
• → French: exégète
• → German: Exeget
• → Italian: esegeta
• → Polish: egzegeta
• → Portuguese: exegeta
• → Romanian: exeget
• → Russian: экзеге́т (ekzegét)
• → Serbo-Croatian: egzègēt
• → Spanish: exégeta
• → Swedish: exeget

Further reading

• ἐξηγητής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “ἐξηγητής”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “ἐξηγητής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • active agent idem, page 10.
  • adviser idem, page 15.
  • advocate idem, page 15.
  • champion idem, page 123.
  • commentator idem, page 147.
  • counsellor idem, page 176.
  • exponent idem, page 295.
  • fomenter idem, page 332.
  • interpreter idem, page 452.
  • mover idem, page 545.
  • moving spirit idem, page 545.
  • prime idem, page 640.
  • prompter idem, page 653.
  • proposer idem, page 653.
  • ringleader idem, page 716.
  • suggester idem, page 836.