Ancient Greek

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

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

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

Noun

δημαγωγός • ‎(dēmagōgós) m ‎(genitive δημαγωγοῦ); second declension

1. a popular leader
   • Isocrates, Collected Works 184.D
   • Lysias, Collected Works 178.33
   1. (in a bad sense) a leader of the mob, an unprincipled, factious orator, demagogue
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.21
      • Xenophon, Hellenica 2.3.27
      • Andocides, Collected Works 32.37

        λόγοι δημαγωγοῦ, ἔργα τυράννου

      • Aristotle, Politics 5.11.12

        ἔστι γὰρ ὁ δημαγωγὸς τοῦ δήμου κόλαξ

Inflection

Synonyms

• δημηγόρος ‎(dēmēgóros)

References

• δημαγωγός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δημαγωγός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «δημαγωγός» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «δημαγωγός» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • agitator idem, page 19.
  • demagogue idem, page 209.
  • people idem, page 604.
  • ranter idem, page 672.

Greek

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek δημαγωγός ‎(dēmagōgós).

Noun

δημαγωγός • ‎(dimagogós) m ‎(plural δημαγωγοί)

1. demagogue

Declension