ἀργύριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἄργυρος (árguros, “silver”) +‎ -ιον (-ion, diminutive).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ar.ɡý.ri.on/ → /arˈʝy.ri.on/ → /arˈʝi.ri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ar.ɡý.ri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /arˈɡy.ri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /arˈʝy.ri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /arˈʝy.ri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /arˈʝi.ri.on/

Noun

ἀργύρῐον • (argúrion) n (genitive ἀργῠρίου); second declension

1. small coin, coinage
2. money
3. silver

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρῐον; τοῦ ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρῐον tò argúrion	τὼ ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́ω tṑ arguríō	τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρῐᾰ tà argúria
Genitive	τοῦ ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́ου toû arguríou	τοῖν ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́οιν toîn arguríoin	τῶν ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́ων tôn arguríōn
Dative	τῷ ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́ῳ tôi arguríōi	τοῖν ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́οιν toîn arguríoin	τοῖς ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́οις toîs arguríois
Accusative	τὸ ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρῐον tò argúrion	τὼ ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́ω tṑ arguríō	τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρῐᾰ tà argúria
Vocative	ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρῐον argúrion	ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́ω arguríō	ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρῐᾰ argúria
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• (silver): ἄργυρος (árguros)

Further reading

• “ἀργύριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀργύριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀργύριον 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
• ἀργύριον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G694 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cash idem, page 116.
  • coin idem, page 142.
  • money idem, page 539.
  • piece idem, page 611.
  • silver idem, page 776.