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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₃ligos (“indigent, needy, ill”). Compare Old Armenian աղքատ (ałkʻat), Albanian lig, Old Irish líach.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o.lí.ɡos/ → /oˈli.ɣos/ → /oˈli.ɣos/
Adjective
ὀλῐ́γος • (olígos) m (feminine ὀλῐ́γη, neuter ὀλῐ́γον); first/second declension
- Of small amount: few, little
- Of small size: little, small
- Of small degree: slight
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References
- “ὀλίγος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὀλίγος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὀλίγος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὀλίγος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ὀλίγος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ὀλίγος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3641 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- brief idem, page 98.
- distant idem, page 240.
- faint idem, page 302.
- few idem, page 317.
- insignificant idem, page 445.
- jejune idem, page 462.
- languid idem, page 475.
- limited idem, page 492.
- little idem, page 495.
- meagre idem, page 519.
- petty idem, page 609.
- remote idem, page 694.
- scant idem, page 737.
- short idem, page 768.
- slack idem, page 782.
- slender idem, page 783.
- slight idem, page 784.
- small idem, page 786.
- trifling idem, page 895.
- trivial idem, page 896.
- weak idem, page 969.