ὑποστράτηγος

Formed by prefixation of ῠ̔πο- (hupo-, “under-”) +‎ στρᾰτηγός (stratēgós, “commander, general”). Note the change in accentuation from oxytone to proparoxytone.

ῠ̔ποστρᾰ́τηγος • (hupostrátēgos) m (genitive ῠ̔ποστρᾰτήγου); second declension

1. a subordinate commander, (anachronistically) a lieutenant general

   Synonym: ῠ̔ποστρᾰτηγέτης m (hupostratēgétēs)

   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 3.1.32, (equated with Latin lēgātus)
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 19.14
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 19.18
   • 95 CE – 165 CE, Appian, Hannibalic War 10
   • 155 CE – 235 CE, Cassius Dio, Collected Works 59.21
2. a title of various officials
   1. at Tenos
      • 1st century B.C.E., Inscriptiones Graecae 12(5).883.9
   2. in Magnesia
      • Inscriptiones Graecae 9(2).1111.7
   3. in Egypt
      • 2nd century B.C.E., UPZ 124.33
      • 2nd century B.C.E., PTheb.Bank 8.9
      • 1st century B.C.E., BGU 1060.2
      • 1st century B.C.E., BGU 1778.6

• ῠ̔ποστρᾰτηγέω (hupostratēgéō, verb)

• → English: hypostrategos
• Greek: υποστράτηγος (ypostrátigos)
• → Latin: hypostratēgus

• “ὑποστράτηγος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὑποστράτηγος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers