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Ancient Greek
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Etymology
Generally derived from ἀργός (argós, “white”), but the suffix cannot be Indo-European; note the interchanges -λλ-/-λ- and the variations in the ending. Given the meaning, a Pre-Greek origin is quite possible, and connection with ἀργός (argós) is semantically not evident.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ár.ɡil.los/ → /ˈar.ʝil.los/ → /ˈar.ʝi.los/
Noun
ἄργῐλλος • (árgillos) f (genitive ἀργῐ́λλου); second declension
- white clay, potter's clay, argil
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Further reading
- “ἄργιλλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄργιλλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἄργιλλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄργιλλος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN