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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From ἄγγος (ángos, “vessel”) + -εῖον (-eîon).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aŋ.ɡêː.on/ → /aɲˈɟi.on/ → /aɲˈɟi.on/
Noun
ἀγγεῖον • (angeîon) n (genitive ᾰ̓γγείου); second declension
- vessel, jar, vase, pail, bucket, box
- receptacle, reservoir
- coffin, sarcophagus
- cavity (of a body)
- lung
- capsule (of plants)
- (later Greek) body
Declension
Descendants
- → Greek: αγγείο n (angeío, “vessel, pot, jar”) (learned)
Further reading
- “ἀγγεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀγγεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀγγεῖον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
- ἀγγεῖον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G30 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.
- barrel idem, page 63.
- bucket idem, page 102.
- can idem, page 110.
- cooking-pot idem, page 173.
- hod idem, page 402.
- jar idem, page 461.
- pail idem, page 588.
- pan idem, page 590.
- pannikin idem, page 591.
- pipkin idem, page 614.
- pitcher idem, page 615.
- pot idem, page 629.
- tub idem, page 900.
- vessel idem, page 949.