τοξότης

Alternative forms

• τοξότᾱς (toxótās) – Doric

Etymology

τόξον (tóxon, “arrow”) +‎ -της (-tēs, masculine suffix for person concerned with something)

Pronunciation

Noun

τοξότης • (toxótēs) m (genitive τοξότου); first declension

(Epic, Ionic, Doric, Attic, Koine)

1. archer, bowman
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.385

     τοξότα λωβητὴρ κέρᾳ ἀγλαὲ παρθενοπῖπα

     toxóta lōbētḕr kérāi aglaè parthenopîpa

     You archer, slanderer, lovely in head, eyer of maidens

   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.39
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.28
   • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Rhesus 312
2. (astrology) Sagittarius, the Archer
   • 190 BCE – 120 BCE, Hipparchus, 1 2.20
3. (in the plural) city police of Athens
   • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 54
   • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 711
   • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 665
   • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, And. 3.5
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 319c
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians 24.3

References

• τοξότης in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• τοξότης in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τοξότης (toxótēs)

Noun

τοξότης • (toxótis) m (plural τοξότες, feminine τοξότρια)

1. (archery) archer