ἄργελλα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ἄργῑλᾰ (árgīlă), ἄργῐλλᾰ (árgĭllă)
Etymology
Related to Albanian ragal (“kennel”). The interchanges ε/ι and λ/λλ clearly point to a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ár.ɡel.la/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈar.ɡel.la/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈar.ʝel.la/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈar.ʝel.la/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈar.ʝe.la/
Noun
ἄργελλᾰ • (árgellă) f (genitive ἀργέλλης); first declension
- (in Macedonia) vapour bath, steam bath
- Synonym: πῠρῐ́ᾱ (pŭrĭ́ā)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἄργελλᾰ hē árgellă |
τὼ ἀργέλλᾱ tṑ argéllā |
αἱ ἄργελλαι hai árgellai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἀργέλλης tês argéllēs |
τοῖν ἀργέλλαιν toîn argéllain |
τῶν ἀργελλῶν tôn argellôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἀργέλλῃ tēî argéllēi |
τοῖν ἀργέλλαιν toîn argéllain |
ταῖς ἀργέλλαις taîs argéllais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἄργελλᾰν tḕn árgellăn |
τὼ ἀργέλλᾱ tṑ argéllā |
τᾱ̀ς ἀργέλλᾱς tā̀s argéllās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἄργελλᾰ árgellă |
ἀργέλλᾱ argéllā |
ἄργελλαι árgellai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ἄργελλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἄργελλα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄργελλα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- 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