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psychopompos

psychopompos is the alternative form of psychopomp.

Meaning of psychopomp

Noun

psychopomp (plural psychopomps)

  1. A spirit, deity, person, etc., who guides the souls of the dead to the afterlife.
    • As the souls of the departed are symbolized as rats, so is the psychopomp himself often figured as a dog. Sarameias, the Vedic counterpart of Hermes and Odin, sometimes appears invested with canine attributes; and countless other examples go to show that by the early Aryan mind the howling wind was...1872, John Fiske, Myths and Myth-Makers

Forms of psychopompos

pluralpsychopompoi

Origin of psychopompos

From Ancient Greek ψῡχοπομπός (psūkhopompós).

Questions about psychopompos

What is psychopompos the alternative form of?
Psychopompos is the alternative form of psychopomp.

Words near psychopompos in the dictionary

  1. psychoplastogens
  2. psychopolitical
  3. psychopolitics
  4. psychopomp
  5. psychopompoi
  6. psychopompos
  7. psychopomps
  8. psychopractice
  9. psychopractices
  10. psychopragmatic
  11. psychopragmatics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: psychopompos (page history and authors); psychopomp (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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