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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the noun αὐγή (augḗ, “sunbeam”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ǎu̯.ɡɛː/ → /ˈaβ.ʝi/ → /ˈav.ʝi/
Proper noun
Αὔγη • (Aúgē) f (genitive Αὔγης); first declension
- a female given name, equivalent to English Auge
- (Greek mythology) Auge, the daughter of king Aleus and the virgin priestess of Athena Alea
480 BCE – 406 BCE,
Euripides,
Fragments 696.4–5:
- Αὔγη γὰρ Ἀλέου παῖς με τῷ Τιρυνθίῳ / τίκτει λαθραίως Ἡρακλεῖ·
- Aúgē gàr Aléou paîs me tôi Tirunthíōi / tíktei lathraíōs Hērakleî;
- Auge, you see, the daughter of Aleus, bore me to Tirynsian / Hercules in secret.
- (Greek mythology) Auge, one of the Horae.
Inflection
Descendants
References
- Αὔγη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,003
- “Αὔγη”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011