Ancient Greek Dictionary

Ancient Greek Dictionary

Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄγονος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄγονος ἄγονη ἄγονον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + γον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: gi/gnomai

Sense

  1. unborn, not yet born
  2. not producing, unfruitful, barren, without issue, bringing no children to the birth
  3. not productive of, barren in
  4. childless

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ά̓γονος ἄγόνη ά̓γονον
Genitive ἀγόνου ἄγόνης ἀγόνου
Dative ἀγόνῳ ἄγόνῃ ἀγόνῳ
Accusative ά̓γονον ἄγόνην ά̓γονον
Vocative ά̓γονε ἄγόνη ά̓γονον
DualN/A/V ἀγόνω ἄγόνᾱ ἀγόνω
G/D ἀγόνοιν ἄγόναιν ἀγόνοιν
PluralNominative ά̓γονοι ά̓́γοναι ά̓γονα
Genitive ἀγόνων ἄγονῶν ἀγόνων
Dative ἀγόνοις ἄγόναις ἀγόνοις
Accusative ἀγόνους ἄγόνᾱς ά̓γονα
Vocative ά̓γονοι ά̓́γοναι ά̓γονα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ά̓γονος ἀγόνου ἀγονώτερος ἀγονωτέρου ἀγονώτατος ἀγονωτάτου
Adverb ἀγόνως ἀγονώτερον ἀγονώτατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὁ δὲ Τροιζήνιοσ οἶνοσ ἀγόνουσ, φησί, ποιεῖ τοὺσ πίνοντασ, ἐν Θάσῳ δὲ λέγει ὡσ αὐτοὶ ποιοῦσιν οἶνόν τινα ὑπνωτικὸν καὶ ἕτερον ἀγρυπνεῖν ποιοῦντα τοὺσ πίνοντασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 57 3:2)
  • Διοκλῆσ ἀγόνουσ τοὺσ ἄνδρασ ἢ παρὰ τὸ μηδ’ ὅλωσ ἐνίουσ σπέρμα προϊέσθαι ἢ παρὰ τὸ ἔλαττον τοῦ δέοντοσ· (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 5, 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. not productive of

  2. childless

Related

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

Find this word at Perseus Greek Word Study Tool

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION