μυσταγωγός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μύστης (mústēs, “initiate”) + ἀγωγός (agōgós, “leader”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mys.ta.ɡɔː.ɡós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /mys.ta.ɡoˈɡos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /mys.ta.ɣoˈɣos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /mys.ta.ɣoˈɣos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /mis.ta.ɣoˈɣos/
Noun
μυστᾰγωγός • (mustăgōgós) m (genitive μυστᾰγωγοῦ); second declension
- mystagogue, one who prepares an initiate for entry into a mystery cult
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ μῠστᾰγωγός ho mŭstăgōgós |
τὼ μῠστᾰγωγώ tṑ mŭstăgōgṓ |
οἱ μῠστᾰγωγοί hoi mŭstăgōgoí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ μῠστᾰγωγοῦ toû mŭstăgōgoû |
τοῖν μῠστᾰγωγοῖν toîn mŭstăgōgoîn |
τῶν μῠστᾰγωγῶν tôn mŭstăgōgôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ μῠστᾰγωγῷ tōî mŭstăgōgōî |
τοῖν μῠστᾰγωγοῖν toîn mŭstăgōgoîn |
τοῖς μῠστᾰγωγοῖς toîs mŭstăgōgoîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν μῠστᾰγωγόν tòn mŭstăgōgón |
τὼ μῠστᾰγωγώ tṑ mŭstăgōgṓ |
τοὺς μῠστᾰγωγούς toùs mŭstăgōgoús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μῠστᾰγωγέ mŭstăgōgé |
μῠστᾰγωγώ mŭstăgōgṓ |
μῠστᾰγωγοί mŭstăgōgoí | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: mystagōgus (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- μυσταγωγός in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μυσταγωγός, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “μυσταγωγός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μυσταγωγός in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn