Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• δάμιος ‎(dámios) (Doric)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ðímios/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðímios/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðímios/

Adjective

δήμιος • ‎(dḗmios) m, f ‎(neuter δήμιον); second declension

1. public, belonging to the people
2. (masculine substantive)
   1. public executioner
   2. public physician

Inflection

Derived terms

• δημιουργός ‎(dēmiourgós)

References

• δήμιος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δήμιος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «δήμιος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «δήμιος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «δήμιος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• «δήμιος» 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • public idem, page 655.
  • state idem, page 812.

Greek

Noun

δήμιος • ‎(dímios) m ‎(plural δήμιοι)

1. executioner
2. hangman
3. headsman

Declension