aoidos means an Ancient Greek bard. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 80 out of 100.
Why this word is great
AOIDOS — [Noun] An Ancient Greek oral poet, specifically a singer and composer of epic poetry in the Homeric tradition. Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀοιδός (aoidós), an agent noun derived from the verb ἀείδω (aeídō, "to sing"). Unlike a "rhapsode" (who stitches together and recites the established works of others) or a "bard" (a term freighted with Celtic mist and romantic revivalism), the *aoidos* was the primal source, a composer-performer whose memory and improvisation were his manuscript. He is the voice in firelight shaping gods and heroes from the dark air, the trained memory holding whole worlds within a single throat, the living thread between the divine muse and the hushed hall—a fragile, mortal filament for the only immortality his age knew.
noun
- An Ancient Greek bard.