διδακτός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From διδάσκω (didáskō) +‎ -τός (-tós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /di.dak.tós/ → /ði.ðakˈtos/ → /ði.ðakˈtos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /di.dak.tós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /di.dakˈtos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ði.ðakˈtos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ði.ðakˈtos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ði.ðakˈtos/

Adjective

δῐδακτός • (didaktós) m (feminine δῐδακτή, neuter δῐδακτόν); first/second declension or
δῐδακτός • (didaktós) m or f (neuter δῐδακτόν); second declension

1. taught, learnt
2. teachable, learnable
3. instructed [with genitive ‘in’]

Declension

First and second declension of δῐδακτός; δῐδακτή; δῐδακτόν (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		δῐδακτός didaktós	δῐδακτή didaktḗ	δῐδακτόν didaktón		δῐδακτώ didaktṓ	δῐδακτᾱ́ didaktā́	δῐδακτώ didaktṓ		δῐδακτοί didaktoí	δῐδακταί didaktaí	δῐδακτᾰ́ didaktá
Genitive		δῐδακτοῦ didaktoû	δῐδακτῆς didaktês	δῐδακτοῦ didaktoû		δῐδακτοῖν didaktoîn	δῐδακταῖν didaktaîn	δῐδακτοῖν didaktoîn		δῐδακτῶν didaktôn	δῐδακτῶν didaktôn	δῐδακτῶν didaktôn
Dative		δῐδακτῷ didaktôi	δῐδακτῇ didaktêi	δῐδακτῷ didaktôi		δῐδακτοῖν didaktoîn	δῐδακταῖν didaktaîn	δῐδακτοῖν didaktoîn		δῐδακτοῖς didaktoîs	δῐδακταῖς didaktaîs	δῐδακτοῖς didaktoîs
Accusative		δῐδακτόν didaktón	δῐδακτήν didaktḗn	δῐδακτόν didaktón		δῐδακτώ didaktṓ	δῐδακτᾱ́ didaktā́	δῐδακτώ didaktṓ		δῐδακτούς didaktoús	δῐδακτᾱ́ς didaktā́s	δῐδακτᾰ́ didaktá
Vocative		δῐδακτέ didakté	δῐδακτή didaktḗ	δῐδακτόν didaktón		δῐδακτώ didaktṓ	δῐδακτᾱ́ didaktā́	δῐδακτώ didaktṓ		δῐδακτοί didaktoí	δῐδακταί didaktaí	δῐδακτᾰ́ didaktá
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		δῐδακτῶς didaktôs				δῐδακτότερος didaktóteros				δῐδακτότᾰτος didaktótatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

When declined as a two-ending adjective, the feminine forms above are replaced with the masculine equivalents.

Quotations

• 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of John 6:45:

  ἔστι γεγραμμένον ἐν τοῖς προφήταις, Καὶ ἔσονται πάντες διδακτοὶ τοῦ Θεοῦ. πᾶς οὖν ὁ ἀκούσας παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ μαθών, ἔρχεται πρός με.

  ésti gegramménon en toîs prophḗtais, Kaì ésontai pántes didaktoì toû Theoû. pâs oûn ho akoúsas parà toû patròs kaì mathṓn, érkhetai prós me.

  • Translation by KJV

    It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.

• 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 2:13:

  ἃ καὶ λαλοῦμεν, οὐκ ἐν διδακτοῖς ἀνθρωπίνης σοφίας λόγοις, ἀλλ’ ἐν διδακτοῖς Πνεύματος Ἁγίου, πνευματικοῖς πνευματικὰ συγκρίνοντες.

  hà kaì laloûmen, ouk en didaktoîs anthrōpínēs sophías lógois, all’ en didaktoîs Pneúmatos Hagíou, pneumatikoîs pneumatikà sunkrínontes.

  • Translation by KJV

    Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

    (literally, “taught by man’s wisdom […] taught by the Holy Ghost […] ”)

Derived terms

• αὐτοδίδακτος (autodídaktos)
• διδακτικός (didaktikós)

Descendants

• → English: didact
• → French: didacte
• → Russian: дида́кт (didákt)

Further reading

• διδακτός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• διδακτός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “διδακτός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “διδακτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “διδακτός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1318 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • communicable idem, page 149.
  • teachable idem, page 859.