ἀγνύς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, suffixes like -ῦθ- are typically Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.ɡny̌ːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈɡnys/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈɣnys/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈɣnys/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈɣnis/
Noun
ἀγνῡ́ς • (agnū́s) f (genitive ἀγνῦθος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἀγνῡ́ς hē agnū́s |
τὼ ἀγνῦθε tṑ agnûthe |
αἱ ἀγνῦθες hai agnûthes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἀγνῦθος tês agnûthos |
τοῖν ἀγνῡ́θοιν toîn agnū́thoin |
τῶν ἀγνῡ́θων tôn agnū́thōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἀγνῦθῐ tēî agnûthĭ |
τοῖν ἀγνῡ́θοιν toîn agnū́thoin |
ταῖς ἀγνῦσῐ / ἀγνῦσῐν taîs agnûsĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἀγνῦθᾰ tḕn agnûthă |
τὼ ἀγνῦθε tṑ agnûthe |
τᾱ̀ς ἀγνῦθᾰς tā̀s agnûthăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἀγνῡ́ς agnū́s |
ἀγνῦθε agnûthe |
ἀγνῦθες agnûthes | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ἀγνύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀγνύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀγνῦθες in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀγνύς”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 14