Ἀγαύη
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- Ἀγαυή (Agauḗ)
Etymology
From the feminine of ἀγαυός (agauós, “illustrious, noble”), with a stress shift.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.ɡǎu̯.ɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈɡa.we̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈɣa.βi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈɣa.vi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈɣa.vi/
Proper noun
Ἀγαύη • (Agaúē) f (genitive Ἀγαύης); first declension
- (Greek mythology) a female given name, Agave, borne by several figures in Greek mythology
Inflection
Descendants
Descendants
Further reading
- “Ἀγαύη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Ἀγαύη 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, page 1,000