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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Maybe derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg- (“to increase”). Cognates might include Albanian ag (“dawn”) and agój (“to dawn”) and Old Church Slavonic югъ (jugŭ, “South, south wind”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /au̯.ɡɛ̌ː/ → /aβˈʝi/ → /avˈʝi/
Noun
αὐγή • (augḗ) f (genitive αὐγῆς); first declension
- light of the sun, sunlight
- (in the plural) rays, beams
- dawn
- any bright light, as of fire
- any gleam on the surface of bright objects, sheen
Inflection
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Descendants
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “Aὐγή”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- ^ Frisk, Hjalmar (1960) “αὐγή”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 183-184
Further reading
- “αὐγή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “αὐγή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “αὐγή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- αὐγή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- αὐγή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- αὐγή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G827 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- beam idem, page 66.
- blaze idem, page 82.
- brightness idem, page 98.
- coruscation idem, page 176.
- eye idem, page 299.
- flame idem, page 325.
- flash idem, page 326.
- glare idem, page 361.
- gleam idem, page 361.
- glimmer idem, page 362.
- glitter idem, page 362.
- light idem, page 490.
- ray idem, page 674.
- sunbeam idem, page 838.
- αὐγή - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.