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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Connected to *ἄργος (*árgos) in ἀργεστής (argestḗs, “north-west wind”) and ἀργεννός (argennós, “white”), like ἄνθεμον (ánthemon) to ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”), yet the latter derivation is difficult. Further connected to ἀργός (argós, “white”). Regarding the plant significations this has together with ἀργεμώνη (argemṓnē, “pale poppy, Papaver argemone; agrimony”) been put to Akkadian 𒅈𒂵𒌋𒌋𒉡 (argamannu, “purple”) which has given rise to the names of various purple plants.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ár.ɡe.mon/ → /ˈar.ʝe.mon/ → /ˈar.ʝe.mon/
Noun
ἄργεμον • (árgemon) n (genitive ἀργέμου); second declension
- (pathology) albugo, a white speck on the eye
- Synonym: λεύκωμᾰ (leúkōmă)
- herb bennet, avens (Geum urbanum)
- upper part of the fingernail
Inflection
Further reading
- “ἄργεμον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἄργεμον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄργεμον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Lagarde, Paul de (1889) Übersicht über die im Aramäischen, Arabischen und Hebräischen übliche Bildung der Nomina (Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen; 35) (in German), Göttingen: Dieterichsche Verlags-Buchhandlung, page 205 footnote asterisk
- Puhvel, Jaan (1984) Hittite Etymological Dictionary (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 1), volume 1, Berlin, New York, Amsterdam: Mouton, page 145
- Rabin, Chaim (1963) “Hittite Words in Hebrew”, in Orientalia, volume 32, number 2, →DOI, pages 116–118