ἀγρός

See also: αγρός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *agrós, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros. Cognates include Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀒𐀫 (a-ko-ro), Latin ager, Sanskrit अज्र (ájra) and Old English æcer (English acre).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡrós/ → /aˈɣros/ → /aˈɣros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.ɡrós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈɡros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈɣros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈɣros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈɣros/

Noun

ᾰ̓γρός • (agrós) m (genitive ᾰ̓γροῦ); second declension (Epic, Attic, Ionic, Doric, Koine)

1. field, land, countryside

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ᾰ̓γρός; τοῦ ᾰ̓γροῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ᾰ̓γρός ho agrós	τὼ ᾰ̓γρώ tṑ agrṓ	οἱ ᾰ̓γροί hoi agroí
Genitive	τοῦ ᾰ̓γροῦ toû agroû	τοῖν ᾰ̓γροῖν toîn agroîn	τῶν ᾰ̓γρῶν tôn agrôn
Dative	τῷ ᾰ̓γρῷ tôi agrôi	τοῖν ᾰ̓γροῖν toîn agroîn	τοῖς ᾰ̓γροῖς toîs agroîs
Accusative	τὸν ᾰ̓γρόν tòn agrón	τὼ ᾰ̓γρώ tṑ agrṓ	τοὺς ᾰ̓γρούς toùs agroús
Vocative	ᾰ̓γρέ agré	ᾰ̓γρώ agrṓ	ᾰ̓γροί agroí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἄγριος (ágrios)
• ἄγροικος (ágroikos)
• ἀγρότης (agrótēs)
• Μελέαγρος (Meléagros)

Descendants

• Greek: αγρός m (agrós, “field”)

Further reading

• “ἀγρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀγρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἀγρός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἀγρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀγρός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἀγρός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἀγρός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G68 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.
  • country idem, page 178.
  • domain idem, page 246.
  • estate idem, page 283.
  • farm idem, page 307.
  • field idem, page 317.
  • ground idem, page 375.
  • land idem, page 475.