Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /erminéβs/

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

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

Noun

ἐρμηνεύς • ‎(ermēneús) m ‎(genitive ἐρμηνέως); third declension

1. interpreter, dragoman, expounder
2. matchmaker
3. broker, commissionaire

Inflection

Descendants

• English: hermeneutics

References

• ἐρμηνεύς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press