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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵr̥yos (“campestral, of a field”). By surface analysis, ἀγρός (agrós, “field, country”) + -ιος (-ios, adjective suffix).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /á.ɡri.os/ → /ˈa.ɣri.os/ → /ˈa.ɣri.os/
Adjective
ἄγρῐος • (ágrios) m (feminine ἀγρίᾱ, neuter ἄγρῐον); first/second declension
- Living in the open fields
- (of plants or animals) wild (non-domesticated),
- (of people or animals) wild, savage, violent, fierce
- (of situations) cruel, harsh
Usage notes
Some writers treat ἄγριος as solely a second declension adjective, and so adjectives declined as masculine may be masculine or feminine.
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References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀγρός (> DER > ἄγριος)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 16
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “egër”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 86
Further reading
- “ἄγριος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄγριος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἄγριος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἄγριος 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
- ἄγριος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἄγριος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἄγριος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G66 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.
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- brutal idem, page 102.
- cruel idem, page 187.
- devilish idem, page 220.
- fell idem, page 314.
- ferocious idem, page 316.
- fiendish idem, page 318.
- fierce idem, page 318.
- grisly idem, page 374.
- hard idem, page 385.
- heartless idem, page 392.
- inhuman idem, page 441.
- savage idem, page 735.
- stony idem, page 819.
- uncivilised idem, page 909.
- uncultivated idem, page 911.
- unnamed idem, page 926.
- unreclaimed idem, page 929.
- untamable idem, page 934.
- untamed idem, page 934.
- wild idem, page 979.