ἀργύριον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἄργυρος (árguros, “silver”) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ar.ɡý.ri.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /arˈɡy.ri.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /arˈʝy.ri.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /arˈʝy.ri.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /arˈʝi.ri.on/
Noun
ἀργύρῐον • (argúrĭon) n (genitive ἀργῠρίου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρῐον tò ărgŭ́rĭon |
τὼ ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́ω tṑ ărgŭrĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρῐᾰ tằ ărgŭ́rĭă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́ου toû ărgŭrĭ́ou |
τοῖν ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́οιν toîn ărgŭrĭ́oin |
τῶν ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́ων tôn ărgŭrĭ́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́ῳ tōî ărgŭrĭ́ōi |
τοῖν ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́οιν toîn ărgŭrĭ́oin |
τοῖς ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́οις toîs ărgŭrĭ́ois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρῐον tò ărgŭ́rĭon |
τὼ ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́ω tṑ ărgŭrĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρῐᾰ tằ ărgŭ́rĭă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρῐον ărgŭ́rĭon |
ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́ω ărgŭrĭ́ō |
ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρῐᾰ ărgŭ́rĭă | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
- (silver): ἄργυρος (árguros)
Further reading
- “ἀργύριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀργύριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀργύριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
- ἀργύριον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- G694 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.