Ἡγούμενος
leading, leader, abbot
Translated by Catharine Roth22 Jul 2006Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
[Meaning one who is] going first and leading the way.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἡγούμενος· προηγούμενος.
Betacode
*(hgou/menos: prohgou/menos.
Notes
- The headword is present participle of
h(ge/omai . (In Christian usage it designates a monastic superior; cf. eta 71.)
The entry invites comparison with the longer one in Photius, Lexicon eta25 Theodoridis, where the headwordh(goume/nou (genitive case) occurs in a phrase about Eros quoted from Plato, Republic 573E, andprohgoume/nou is part of the phrase which glosses it.