ἀγελαῖος

From ἀγέλη (agélē, “herd”) +‎ -ιος (-ios, adjective suffix).

ᾰ̓γελαῖος • (agelaîos) m (feminine ᾰ̓γελαίᾱ, neuter ᾰ̓γελαῖον); first/second declension

1. gregarious
2. common, ordinary

Aristotle makes a distinction between this and πολιτικός (politikós, “social”); social animals (a subset of gregarious animals) work to a common end, while gregarious animals do not necessarily do so.

• Greek: αγελαίος (agelaíos)

• “ἀγελαῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀγελαῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀγελαῖος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀγελαῖος 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.
  • gregarious idem, page 373.
  • herd idem, page 397.
  • herding idem, page 397.
  • social idem, page 790.