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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *agorā́, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂goréh₂, from *h₂ger- (“to gather”); equivalent to ᾰ̓γείρω (ageírō, “to gather”) + -η (-ē, abstract noun suffix).[1]
Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀒𐀨 (a-ko-ra).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ɡo.rǎː/ → /a.ɣoˈra/ → /a.ɣoˈra/
Noun
ᾰ̓γορᾱ́ • (agorā́) f (genitive ᾰ̓γορᾶς); first declension
- assembly, especially an assembly of the people (as opposed to a council, βουλή (boulḗ))
- the place of assembly
- speech
- market, marketplace
- things sold at market, provisions, supplies
- sale
- the time of market: midday
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References
Further reading
- “ἀγορά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀγορά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀγορά 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
- ἀγορά in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἀγορά”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G58 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- ἀγορά in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.