ἀγαρικόν

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

Said to be from Ἁγαρία (Hagaría), a place in Sarmatia where the mushroom grew.[1] The placename is from Iranian and could possibly be from Proto-Indo-European *aǵ-r̥-, verbal noun from *h₂eǵ- (to drive), meaning something like "driving or gathering land."[2]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

ἀγᾰρῐκόν (agarikónn (genitive ἀγᾰρῐκοῦ); second declension

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  1. type of tree-fungus, Phellinus pomaceus

Inflection

Descendants

  • Latin: agaricum

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  2. ^ Anttila, R. (2000). Greek and Indo-European etymology in action: proto-Indo-European *aǵ-. Netherlands: J. Benjamins, p. 106

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