Argo

See also: argo and argó

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin Argo, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek Ἀργώ (Argṓ), the mythical ship of the Argonauts.

Proper noun

Argo

1. (Greek mythology) The ship in which Jason and the Argonauts sailed on their quest for the Golden Fleece.
2. (astronomy) Argo Navis, a large constellation in the southern hemisphere, now divided into Carina, Puppis, and Vela.

Related terms

• Argean
• Argo Navis
• Argonaut
• Argos

Translations

mythical ship

• French: Argo (fr)
• German: Argo
• Greek: Αργώ (el) f (Argó)

  Ancient: Ἀργώ f (Argṓ)

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• Polish: Argo (pl) m
• Portuguese: Argo (pt) m
• Russian: Арго́ m (Argó)
• Spanish: Argo

Anagrams

• Garo, Gora, Rago, agro, agro-, goar

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Italian

Proper noun

Argo f

1. Argos

Related terms

• argivo

Anagrams

• agro, roga

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀργώ (Argṓ), the mythical ship of the Argonauts.

Proper noun

Argō f sg (genitive Argūs); fourth declension

1. the Argo (mythical ship)

Declension

• Only the genitive and accusative are attested. The remaining forms have been reconstructed based on the Greek inflection.

Fourth-declension noun (nominative/accusative/vocative singular in -ō, ablative singular in -uī), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Argō
Genitive	Argūs
Dative	Arguī
Accusative	Argō
Ablative	Arguī
Vocative	Argō

Related terms

• Argōnauta
• Argōus

Descendants

• English: Argo

References

• “Argo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Argō in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 159/3.
• “Argo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Further reading

• Argo on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Argo m

1. (Greek mythology) Argus (giant with a hundred eyes)
2. (Greek mythology) Argo (mythical ship of the Argonauts)

Related terms

• argonauta

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Spanish

Proper noun

Argo m

1. (Greek mythology) Argo (mythical ship)

Related terms

• argonauta