ἄργυρος
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a u-stem of Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵ- (“white, argent”). Cognates include Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀓𐀫 (a-ku-ro), Latin argentum, Sanskrit अर्जुन (árjuna) and Old Armenian արծաթ (arcatʻ). See also ἀργός (argós, “white, bright”) and ἄργυφος (árguphos, “white, shining”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ár.ɡy.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈar.ɡy.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈar.ʝy.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈar.ʝy.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈar.ʝi.ros/
Noun
[edit]ᾰ̓́ργῠρος • (árguros) m (genitive ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρου); second declension (Epic, Attic, Ionic, Koine)
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ᾰ̓́ργῠρος ho árguros |
τὼ ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρω tṑ argúrō |
οἱ ᾰ̓́ργῠροι hoi árguroi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρου toû argúrou |
τοῖν ᾰ̓ργῠ́ροιν toîn argúroin |
τῶν ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρων tôn argúrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρῳ tôi argúrōi |
τοῖν ᾰ̓ργῠ́ροιν toîn argúroin |
τοῖς ᾰ̓ργῠ́ροις toîs argúrois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ᾰ̓́ργῠρον tòn árguron |
τὼ ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρω tṑ argúrō |
τοὺς ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρους toùs argúrous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓́ργῠρε árgure |
ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρω argúrō |
ᾰ̓́ργῠροι árguroi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- ἀργυράγχη (arguránkhē)
- ἀργυραμοιβός (arguramoibós)
- ἀργυράνθρωπος (arguránthrōpos)
- ἀργυράσπιδες (arguráspides)
- ἀργυράφιον (arguráphion)
- ἀργυρένδετος (arguréndetos)
- ἀργύρεος (argúreos)
- ἀργυρευτική (argureutikḗ)
- ἀργυρεύω (argureúō)
- ἀργυρηλάτης (argurēlátēs)
- ἀργυρήλατος (argurḗlatos)
- ἀργυρηρός (argurērós)
- ἀργυρίδιον (argurídion)
- ἀργυρίζομαι (argurízomai)
- ἀργυρικός (argurikós)
- ἀργύριον (argúrion)
- ἀργύριος (argúrios)
- ἀργυρίς (argurís)
- ἀργυρισμός (argurismós)
- ἀργυρίτης (argurítēs)
- ἀργυρῖτις (argurîtis)
- ἀργυρόβιος (arguróbios)
- ἀργυρογνώμων (argurognṓmōn)
- ἀργυρογραφία (argurographía)
- ἀργυροδάμας (argurodámas)
- ἀργυροδίνης (argurodínēs)
- ἀργυροειδής (arguroeidḗs)
- ἀργυρόηλος (arguróēlos)
- ἀργυροθήκη (argurothḗkē)
- ἀργυρόθρονος (arguróthronos)
- ἀργυροθώραξ (argurothṓrax)
- ἀργυροκόπος (argurokópos)
- ἀργυροκορίνθιος (argurokorínthios)
- ἀργυρόκυκλος (argurókuklos)
- ἀργυρόλιθος (argurólithos)
- ἀργυρολόγος (argurológos)
- ἀργυρομιγής (arguromigḗs)
- ἀργυρόπεζα (argurópeza)
- ἀργυρόπηχυς (argurópēkhus)
- ἀργυροποιός (arguropoiós)
- ἀργυρόπους (argurópous)
- ἀργυροπράτης (arguroprátēs)
- ἀργυρόπρυμνον (arguróprumnon)
- ἀργυρόριζος (argurórizos)
- ἀργυρόρρυτος (argurórrhutos)
- ἀργυρορυχή (argurorukhḗ)
- ἀργυροσκόπος (arguroskópos)
- ἀργυροστερής (argurosterḗs)
- ἀργυροταμίας (argurotamías)
- ἀργυροτέχνης (argurotékhnēs)
- ἀργυρότοιχος (argurótoikhos)
- ἀργυρότοξος (argurótoxos)
- ἀργυροτράπεζα (argurotrápeza)
- ἀργυροτρύφημα (argurotrúphēma)
- ἀργυροφάλαρος (argurophálaros)
- ἀργυροφεγγής (argurophengḗs)
- ἀργύροφλεψ (argúrophleps)
- ἀργυροχάλινος (argurokhálinos)
- ἀργυρόχαλκος (argurókhalkos)
- ἀργυροχόος (argurokhóos)
- ἀργυρόχροος (argurókhroos)
- ἀργυρόω (arguróō)
- ἀργυρώδης (argurṓdēs)
- ἀργύρωμα (argúrōma)
- ἀργυρώνητος (argurṓnētos)
- ἀργυρωρυχεῖον (argurōrukheîon)
- λιθάργυρος (lithárguros)
- ὑδράργυρος (hudrárguros)
- χρυσάργυρος (khrusárguros)
- ψευδάργυρος (pseudárguros)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἄργυρος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 126-7
Further reading
[edit]- “ἄργυρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄργυρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἄργυρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἄργυρος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἄργυρος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G696 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- ἄργυρος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
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