Ancient Greek

Noun

παιδαγωγός • ‎(paidagōgós) m ‎(genitive παιδαγωγοῦ); second declension

1. originally, a slave who accompanied a child to and from school
2. teacher
3. guide, leader

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: παιδαγωγός m, f ‎(paidagogós)
• Latin: paedagōgus
  • French: pédagogue
• Russian: педаго́г m ‎(pedagóg)

References

• παιδαγωγός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• παιδαγωγός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «παιδαγωγός» 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
• “G3807”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «παιδαγωγός» 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.
  • attendant idem, page 51.
  • nurse idem, page 563.
  • school idem, page 739.
  • servant idem, page 755.
  • tutor idem, page 903.
  • usher idem, page 940.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παιδαγωγός ‎(paidagōgós, “slave with responsibility for a child”).

Noun

παιδαγωγός • ‎(paidagogós) m, f ‎(plural παιδαγωγοί)

1. (education) educationalist
2. guide, guru

Declension

Related terms

• παιδαγώγηση f ‎(paidagógisi, “erudition, learning”)
• παιδαγωγία f ‎(paidagogía, “pedagogy”)
• παιδαγωγικός ‎(paidagogikós, “pedagogic, pedagogical, educational”)
• παιδαγωγική f ‎(paidagogikí, “pedagogy”)
• παιδαγωγώ ‎(paidagogó, “teach”)
• παιδεία f ‎(paideía, “education, instruction”)