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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἄργυρος (árguros, “silver”) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ar.ɡý.ri.on/ → /arˈʝy.ri.on/ → /arˈʝi.ri.on/
Noun
ἀργύρῐον • (argúrion) n (genitive ἀργῠρίου); second declension
- small coin, coinage
- money
- silver
Inflection
Synonyms
Further reading
- “ἀργύριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀργύριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀργύριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ἀργύριον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G694 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.