Ἄργος
Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ár.ɡos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈar.ɡos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈar.ɣos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈar.ɣos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈar.ɣos/
Etymology 1
Usually said to be related to ἀργός (argós, “bright, shining”).
According to Gamkrelidze's hypothesis, ultimately from Proto-Georgian-Zan *egr- (“~ western Georgia”) (cf. Mingrelian მ-არგ-ალი (m-arg-ali, “Mingrelian”), from Proto-Georgian-Zan *m-egr-el-i), a toponym allegedly picked up by the linguistic ancestors of Greeks during their theoretical migration from near the Caucasus, along with Ἀργοναύτης (Argonaútēs) and Ἀργολίς (Argolís).[1] Few other scholars support the proto-Greeks' migration through the Caucasus and Asia Minor, however.
Proper noun
Ἄργος • (Árgos) n (genitive Ἄργεος or Ἄργους); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | τὸ Ᾰ̓́ργος tò Árgos | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Ᾰ̓́ργεος / Ᾰ̓́ργευς toû Árgeos / Árgeus | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Ᾰ̓́ργει / Ᾰ̓́ργεῐ̈ tôi Árgei / Árgeï | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ Ᾰ̓́ργος tò Árgos | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Ᾰ̓́ργος Árgos | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Ἀργεία (Argeía)
- Ἀργεῖος (Argeîos)
- Ἀργόθεν (Argóthen)
- Ἀργολίς (Argolís)
- Ἀργολιστί (Argolistí)
- Ἀργοναύτης (Argonaútēs) (possibly)
Descendants
References
- ^ Gamkrelidze, Th. V., Ivanov, V. V. (1995) Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture. Part I: The Text (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 80), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 802–803
Etymology 2
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Proper noun
Ἄργος • (Árgos) m (genitive Ἄργου); second declension
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “Ἄργος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Ἄργος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Ἄργος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “Ἄργος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Ἄργος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,002