κατήγορος

From κᾰτᾰ- (kata-, “against”) + the root of ᾰ̓γορεύω (agoreúō, “to speak”).

κᾰτήγορος • (katḗgoros) m (genitive κᾰτηγόρου); second declension

(Attic, Ionic, Koine)

1. accuser
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.71
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 814
   • 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, Against Alcibiades 16
   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, On the Olive Stump 11
   • 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 18a

• δημόσῐος κᾰτήγορος (dēmósios katḗgoros)
• κᾰτηγορέω (katēgoréō)
• κᾰτηγορικός (katēgorikós)

• ᾰ̓γείρω (ageírō)

• κατήγορος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press