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Ancient Greek
Etymology
A reduplicative nominal formation, likely Attic,[1] of the root of ἄγω (ágō, “I lead”).[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ɡɔː.ɡɛ̌ː/ → /a.ɣoˈʝi/ → /a.ɣoˈʝi/
Noun
ᾰ̓γωγή • (agōgḗ) f (genitive ἀγωγῆς); first declension
- transportation
- (figuratively) tendency
- the act of taking away
- burden, load
- guidance, lead
- moral conduct
- a cure (for an illness)
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, § 117.1
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἄγω (> DER > Reduplicated nouns: > ἀγωγή)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 18-9
Further reading
- “ἀγωγή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀγωγή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἀγωγή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἀγωγή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀγωγή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἀγωγή”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- abduction idem, page 1.
- bringing idem, page 100.
- carriage idem, page 115.
- carrying idem, page 115.
- conveyance idem, page 173.
- influence idem, page 439.
- march idem, page 513.
- rape idem, page 672.
- transmission idem, page 889.
- transport idem, page 889.
- “ἀγωγή”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011