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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀγρός (agrós) + οἰκέω (oikéō).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /á.ɡroi̯.kos/ → /ˈa.ɣry.kos/ → /ˈa.ɣri.kos/
Adjective
ᾰ̓́γροικος • (ágroikos) m or f (neuter ᾰ̓́γροικον); second declension
- country-dwelling, rustic
- (figuratively) coarse, crude, boorish
- Antonym: ἀστεῖος (asteîos)
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἄγροικος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄγροικος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἄγροικος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄγροικος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- awkward idem, page 56.
- bluff idem, page 85.
- blunt idem, page 86.
- boor idem, page 89.
- boorish idem, page 89.
- bred idem, page 97.
- broad idem, page 100.
- bucolic idem, page 102.
- bumpkin idem, page 104.
- churl idem, page 132.
- churlish idem, page 132.
- clod-hopper idem, page 138.
- clown idem, page 140.
- clownish idem, page 140.
- coarse idem, page 140.
- country idem, page 178.
- countryman idem, page 178.
- discourteous idem, page 231.
- gross idem, page 374.
- hind idem, page 400.
- impolite idem, page 422.
- inattentive idem, page 427.
- offensive idem, page 571.
- rough idem, page 722.
- rural idem, page 727.
- rustic idem, page 728.
- sylvan idem, page 850.
- thick-skinned idem, page 866.
- uncivil idem, page 909.
- uncourtly idem, page 911.
- underbred idem, page 913.
- ungallant idem, page 919.
- unmannerly idem, page 925.
- unpolished idem, page 927.
- unrefined idem, page 929.
- unsophisticated idem, page 932.
- vulgar idem, page 958.
- wild idem, page 979.