ἄργυρος

See also: άργυρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵ-. Cognates include Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀓𐀫 (a-ku-ro), Latin argentum, Sanskrit अर्जुन (árjuna) and Old Armenian արծաթ (arcatʻ).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ár.ɡy.ros/ → /ˈar.ʝy.ros/ → /ˈar.ʝi.ros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ár.ɡy.ros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ɡy.ros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ʝy.ros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ʝy.ros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ʝi.ros/

Noun

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

1. silver
2. money

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ᾰ̓́ργῠρος; τοῦ ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ᾰ̓́ργῠρος ho árguros	τὼ ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρω tṑ argúrō	οἱ ᾰ̓́ργῠροι hoi árguroi
Genitive	τοῦ ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρου toû argúrou	τοῖν ᾰ̓ργῠ́ροιν toîn argúroin	τῶν ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρων tôn argúrōn
Dative	τῷ ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρῳ tôi argúrōi	τοῖν ᾰ̓ργῠ́ροιν toîn argúroin	τοῖς ᾰ̓ργῠ́ροις toîs argúrois
Accusative	τὸν ᾰ̓́ργῠρον tòn árguron	τὼ ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρω tṑ argúrō	τοὺς ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρους toùs argúrous
Vocative	ᾰ̓́ργῠρε árgure	ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρω argúrō	ᾰ̓́ργῠροι árguroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀργύρεος (argúreos)
• ἀργυρόηλος (arguróēlos)
• ἀργυροκόπος (argurokópos)
• ἀργυρόπεζα (argurópeza)
• λιθάργυρος (lithárguros)
• ὑδράργυρος (hudrárguros)
• ψευδάργυρος (pseudárguros)

 

Related terms

• ἀργός (argós)
• ἄργυφος (árguphos)

Descendants

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

See also

• 𐀀𐀓𐀫 (a-ku-ro)

References

• “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
• 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^[1], 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
• 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