ἄργυρος

From a u-stem of Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵ- (“white, argent”). Cognates include Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀓𐀫 (a-ku-ro), Latin argentum, Sanskrit अर्जुन (árjuna) and Old Armenian արծաթ (arcatʻ). See also ἀργός (argós, “white, bright”) and ἄργυφος (árguphos, “white, shining”).^[1]

ᾰ̓́ργῠρος • (árguros) m (genitive ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρου); second declension (Epic, Attic, Ionic, Koine)

1. silver
2. money

• English: argyr-
• Greek: άργυρος (árgyros)

• “ἄργυρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἄργυρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἄργυρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἄργυρος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἄργυρος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G696 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• ἄργυρος 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.
  • coin idem, page 142.
  • money idem, page 539.
  • silver idem, page 776.
• 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