Argive
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English
Etymology
From Latin Argīvus, from Ancient Greek Ἀργεῖος (Argeîos).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɑɹɡaɪv/, IPA(key): /ˈɑɹd͡ʒaɪv/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɑːɡaɪv/, IPA(key): /ˈɑːdʒaɪv/
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈɐːɡɒev/, IPA(key): /ˈɐːdʒɒev/
Adjective
Argive (comparative more Argive, superlative most Argive)
- (Ancient Greece) Of, from or pertaining to Argos.
- (Ancient Greece, loosely) Greek.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, Canto XXIII, page 40:
- […] And many an old philosophy
On Argive heights divinely sang,
And round us all the thicket rang
To many a flute of Arcady.
Translations
of, from or pertaining to Argos
Noun
Argive (plural Argives)
- (Ancient Greece) An inhabitant of Argos.
- 1942, “Erato”, in George Rawlinson, transl., The Persian Wars, translation of original by Herodotus:
- The Greeks generally think that this fate came upon him because he induced the Pythoness to pronounce against Demaratus; the Athenians differ from all others in saying that it was because he cut down the sacred grove of the goddesses when he made his invasion by Eleusis; while the Argives ascribe it to his having taken from their refuge and cut to pieces certain argives who had fled from battle into a precinct sacred to Argus, where Cleomenes slew them, burning likewise at the same time, through irreverence, the grove itself.
- (Ancient Greece, poetic) In the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey, and in later classical epics, an alternate name for an Achaean, or Greek in general.
Synonyms
(person from Argos):
Translations
person from Argos
Anagrams
Latin
Adjective
Argīve