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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, suffixes like -ῦθ- are typically Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ɡny̌ːs/ → /aˈɣnys/ → /aˈɣnis/
Noun
ἀγνῡ́ς • (agnū́s) f (genitive ἀγνῦθος); third declension
- (usually in the plural) loom weight
Inflection
Further reading
- “ἀγνύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀγνύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀγνῦθες in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀγνύς”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 14