λογοθέτης
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Etymology tree
From λόγος (lógos) + θέτης (thétēs).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lo.ɡo.tʰé.tɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /lo.ɡoˈtʰe.te̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /lo.ɣoˈθe.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /lo.ɣoˈθe.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /lo.ɣoˈθe.tis/
Noun
λογοθέτης • (logothétēs) m (genitive λογοθέτου); first declension
- auditor
- (Byzantine) logothete, any of various state officials or functionaries in the Byzantine Empire
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ λογοθέτης ho logothétēs |
τὼ λογοθέτᾱ tṑ logothétā |
οἱ λογοθέται hoi logothétai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ λογοθέτου toû logothétou |
τοῖν λογοθέταιν toîn logothétain |
τῶν λογοθετῶν tôn logothetôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ λογοθέτῃ tōî logothétēi |
τοῖν λογοθέταιν toîn logothétain |
τοῖς λογοθέταις toîs logothétais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν λογοθέτην tòn logothétēn |
τὼ λογοθέτᾱ tṑ logothétā |
τοὺς λογοθέτᾱς toùs logothétās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λογοθέτᾰ logothétă |
λογοθέτᾱ logothétā |
λογοθέται logothétai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: λογοθέτης (logothétis)
- → Armenian: լոգոթետ (logotʻet)
- → Medieval Latin: logotheta
- → Middle Armenian: բանադի (banadi) (calque)
- → Ottoman Turkish: لغوفت (loğofet)
- Turkish: loğofet
- → Romanian: logofăt
Further reading
- λογοθέτης 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
- λογοθέτης, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “λογοθέτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Pape, Wilhelm (1914), “λογοθέτης”, in Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
- Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900), “λογοθέτης”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 718