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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *uh₂ǵmós, from the root *weh₂ǵ- (“to break”). By surface analysis, ἄγνυμι (ágnumi, “to break, shatter”) + -μός (-mós).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aŋ.mós/ → /aɣˈmos/ → /aɣˈmos/
Noun
ἀγμός • (agmós) m (genitive ἀγμοῦ); second declension
- fracture
129 CE – 216 CE,
Galen,
Collected Works 18b.556:
- τοὺς μελασμοὺς καὶ νεκρώσεις ἀγμῶν
- toùs melasmoùs kaì nekrṓseis agmôn
- black spots and mortifications of fractures
- cliff, crag
- Synonym: ἄξος (áxos)
413 BCE,
Euripides,
Iphigenia in Tauris 263:
- κοιλωπὸς ἀγμός, πορφυρευτικαὶ στέγαι.
- koilōpòs agmós, porphureutikaì stégai.
- a hollow-looking cliff, a shelter-place for purple-fishers.
Inflection
Further reading
- “ἀγμός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “ἀγμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀγμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀγμός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)