ἀγοραῖος

See also: αγοραίος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀγορά (agorá, “market”) +‎ -ιος (-ios, adjective suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡo.râi̯.os/ → /a.ɣoˈrɛ.os/ → /a.ɣoˈre.os/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.ɡo.râi̯.os/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.ɡoˈrɛ.os/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.ɣoˈrɛ.os/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.ɣoˈre.os/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.ɣoˈre.os/

Adjective

ᾰ̓γοραῖος • (agoraîos) m (feminine ᾰ̓γοραίᾱ, neuter ᾰ̓γοραῖον); first/second declension

1. in, of, or belonging to the market
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.$6
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 973
   • 430 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 70
   • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 297
   • 110 CE – 180 CE, Pausanias Periegeta, Graeciae Descriptio 1.15.1
   • 110 CE – 180 CE, Pausanias Periegeta, Graeciae Descriptio 5.15.4
   • 110 CE – 180 CE, Pausanias Periegeta, Graeciae Descriptio 3.11.9
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 90
   1. (of things)
      • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 425C
2. frequenting the market
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 6.2.23
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1291B.19
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1291A.4
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.93
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.141
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Ways and Means 3.13
   • 100 CE – 200 CE, Aelianus Tacticus, On Tactical Arrays of the Greeks 2.2
   • 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 1015
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 347C
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Characters 6.2
   • New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 17:5
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus 38
   • 90 CE – 168 CE, Ptolemy, Euerg. 1
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Art of Rhetoric 10.11
   1. (of things) low, mean, common, vulgar
      • 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 750
      • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, Fragments 471
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1162B.26
      • 250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 3.109D
3. proper to the market, skilled in, suited to public speaking
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pericles 11
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 13.4.12
   • 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 14.10.21
   • New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 19:38
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Gaius Gracchus 4
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Mark Antony 24
   • 117 CE – 181 CE, Aelius Aristides, Orations 50.94
   • 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 6.36

Declension

First and second declension of ᾰ̓γοραῖος; ᾰ̓γοραίᾱ; ᾰ̓γοραῖον (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ᾰ̓γοραῖος agoraîos	ᾰ̓γοραίᾱ agoraíā	ᾰ̓γοραῖον agoraîon		ᾰ̓γοραίω agoraíō	ᾰ̓γοραίᾱ agoraíā	ᾰ̓γοραίω agoraíō		ᾰ̓γοραῖοι agoraîoi	ᾰ̓γοραῖαι agoraîai	ᾰ̓γοραῖᾰ agoraîa
Genitive		ᾰ̓γοραίου agoraíou	ᾰ̓γοραίᾱς agoraíās	ᾰ̓γοραίου agoraíou		ᾰ̓γοραίοιν agoraíoin	ᾰ̓γοραίαιν agoraíain	ᾰ̓γοραίοιν agoraíoin		ᾰ̓γοραίων agoraíōn	ᾰ̓γοραίων agoraíōn	ᾰ̓γοραίων agoraíōn
Dative		ᾰ̓γοραίῳ agoraíōi	ᾰ̓γοραίᾳ agoraíāi	ᾰ̓γοραίῳ agoraíōi		ᾰ̓γοραίοιν agoraíoin	ᾰ̓γοραίαιν agoraíain	ᾰ̓γοραίοιν agoraíoin		ᾰ̓γοραίοις agoraíois	ᾰ̓γοραίαις agoraíais	ᾰ̓γοραίοις agoraíois
Accusative		ᾰ̓γοραῖον agoraîon	ᾰ̓γοραίᾱν agoraíān	ᾰ̓γοραῖον agoraîon		ᾰ̓γοραίω agoraíō	ᾰ̓γοραίᾱ agoraíā	ᾰ̓γοραίω agoraíō		ᾰ̓γοραίους agoraíous	ᾰ̓γοραίᾱς agoraíās	ᾰ̓γοραῖᾰ agoraîa
Vocative		ᾰ̓γοραῖε agoraîe	ᾰ̓γοραίᾱ agoraíā	ᾰ̓γοραῖον agoraîon		ᾰ̓γοραίω agoraíō	ᾰ̓γοραίᾱ agoraíā	ᾰ̓γοραίω agoraíō		ᾰ̓γοραῖοι agoraîoi	ᾰ̓γοραῖαι agoraîai	ᾰ̓γοραῖᾰ agoraîa
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		ᾰ̓γοραίως agoraíōs				ᾰ̓γοραιότερος agoraióteros				ᾰ̓γοραιότᾰτος agoraiótatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. The feminine often takes the form of the masculine.

Descendants

• Greek: αγοραίος (agoraíos)

Further reading

• “ἀγοραῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀγοραῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀγοραῖος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀγοραῖος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G60 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• ἀγοραῖος 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • base idem, page 64.
  • common idem, page 148.
  • lounge idem, page 502.
  • low idem, page 502.
  • vulgar idem, page 958.