δίδωμι + καλός
Word
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Word-form
διδάσκαλος
Word-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
didaskalos
English translation (word)
teacher
Transliteration (Etymon)
didōmi + kalos
English translation (etymon)
to give + beautiful
Century
5 AD
Source
Idem
Ref.
Etymologicum (cod. reg.) p. 177
Ed.
F.G. Sturz, Orionis Thebani etymologicon, Leipzig 1820
Quotation
Διδάσκαλός ἐστιν ὁ διδοὺς τὸ καλόν
Translation (En)
Didaskalos "teacher" is the one who gives (didous) what is beautiful (kalon)
Parallels
Etym. Parvum, delta 22 (idem); Etym. Gudianum, delta p. 177 (Διδάσκαλος· παρὰ τὸ διδόναι τὸ καλόν, ὁ διδοὺς καλόν· ἢ ὁ διδάσκων καλῶς); Etym. Magnum, Kallierges p. 272 (Ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ διδάσκω, διδάσκαλος, ὡς ἵξω, ἵξαλος. Ἢ παρὰ τὸ διδόναι τὸ καλόν)
Modern etymology
Derived from διδάσκω
Persistence in Modern Greek
The word still exists under the form δάσκαλος "teacher"
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
The word is analyzed as a compound, as most long word forms, on the model of compounds displaying the structure verb + direct object like φερέζυγος ‘bearing the yoke". This etymology requires a formal manipulation, the change of the vowel [u] into [a] – this is not explicit in Orion's formulation.