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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Per Beekes (Beekes 2010: 8) from the accusative singular *m̥ǵ-éh₂-m of Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“great”), whence μέγας (mégas). For Beekes this form is important evidence for his hysterodynamic inflection type. The long ᾱ might be from another dialect.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /á.ɡaːn/ → /ˈa.ɣan/ → /ˈa.ɣan/
Adverb
ᾰ̓́γᾱν • (ágān)
- very much
- too much, excessively
460 BCE – 420 BCE,
Herodotus,
Histories 2.173.2:
- ὦ βασιλεῦ, οὐκ ὀρθῶς, σεωυτοῦ προέστηκας, ἐς τὸ ἄγαν φαῦλον προάγων σεωυτόν.
- ô basileû, ouk orthôs, seōutoû proéstēkas, es tò ágan phaûlon proágōn seōutón.
- Oh king, you do not govern yourself rightly, by inducing yourself to too much baseness.
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἄγᾱν”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 8
Further reading
- “ἄγαν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄγαν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἄγαν”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- ἄγαν in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- ἄγαν - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.