ἀγκάλη

See also: αγκάλη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Compare ἄγκος (ánkos, “bend”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /aŋ.ká.lɛː/ → /aŋˈɡa.li/ → /aŋˈɡa.li/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /aŋ.ká.lɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aŋˈka.le̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aŋˈɡa.li/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aŋˈɡa.li/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aŋˈɡa.li/

Noun

ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λη • (ankálē) f (genitive ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λης); first declension

1. the bent arm
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 723
   • 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 481
   • 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 351
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.5.50
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 289
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 464
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 761
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 1250
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 962
   • 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 747
   • 600 BCE – 300 BCE, Corinna, Collected Works 19
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.61
   • 400 BCE – 300 BCE, Timocles, Collected Works 7.4
2. (figuratively) anything closely enfolding
   • 680 BCE – 645 BCE, Archilochus, Collected Works 23
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1019
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 587
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 1378
   • 400 BCE – 300 BCE, Nausicrates, Collected Works 1.3
   • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 941

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λη; τῆς ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λη hē ankálē	τὼ ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λᾱ tṑ ankálā	αἱ ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λαι hai ankálai
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λης tês ankálēs	τοῖν ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λαιν toîn ankálain	τῶν ᾰ̓γκᾰλῶν tôn ankalôn
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λῃ têi ankálēi	τοῖν ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λαιν toîn ankálain	ταῖς ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λαις taîs ankálais
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λην tḕn ankálēn	τὼ ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λᾱ tṑ ankálā	τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λᾱς tā̀s ankálās
Vocative	ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λη ankálē	ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λᾱ ankálā	ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λαι ankálai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: αγκάλη (agkáli)

Further reading

• “ἀγκάλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀγκάλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀγκάλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀγκάλη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G43 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible