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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀγών (agṓn).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ɡɔː.ní.aː/ → /a.ɣoˈni.a/ → /a.ɣoˈni.a/
Noun
ἀγωνίᾱ • (agōníā) f (genitive ἀγωνίᾱς); first declension
- contest, struggle for victory
- gymnastic exercise
- (of the mind) agony, anguish
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “ἀγωνία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀγωνία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀγωνία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀγωνία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἀγωνία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G74 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.
- anxiety idem, page 32.
- athletics idem, page 49.
- battle idem, page 65.
- combat idem, page 144.
- concern idem, page 155.
- conflict idem, page 159.
- contest idem, page 168.
- encounter idem, page 271.
- engagement idem, page 274.
- fight idem, page 318.
- fray idem, page 343.
- gymnastic idem, page 380.
- race idem, page 667.
- struggle idem, page 828.
- tussle idem, page 903.