Ancient Greek

Noun

ῥήτωρ • ‎(rhḗtōr) m ‎(genitive ῥήτορος); third declension

1. orator, public speaker
2. politician, statesman
3. attorney, court advocate
4. judge
5. rhetorician

Inflection

Descendants

• English: rhetor
• Latin: rhētor
• Polish: retor
• Russian: ритор ‎(ritor)

References

• ῥήτωρ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ῥήτωρ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ῥήτωρ» 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
• “G4489”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • debater idem, page 199.
  • orator idem, page 578.
  • politician idem, page 625.
  • professional idem, page 653.
  • public idem, page 655.
  • public speaker idem, page 655.
  • rhetorician idem, page 712.
  • speaker idem, page 799.
  • statesman idem, page 812.