ἀγαλλίς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
No etymology according to Beekes. The Diccionario Griego-Español proposes a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“yellow”), through Thracian, and subsequently influenced by the unrelated verb ἀγάλλομαι (agállomai, “to be proud, exult in”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.ɡal.lís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a.ɡalˈlis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.ɣalˈlis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.ɣalˈlis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.ɣaˈlis/
Noun
ἀγᾰλλῐ́ς • (agallís) f (genitive ἀγᾰλλῐ́δος); third declension
- Greek iris (Iris attica)
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ ἀγᾰλλῐ́ς; τῆς ἀγᾰλλῐ́δος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἀγᾰλλῐ́ς hē agallís | τὼ ἀγᾰλλῐ́δε tṑ agallíde | αἱ ἀγᾰλλῐ́δες hai agallídes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἀγᾰλλῐ́δος tês agallídos | τοῖν ἀγᾰλλῐ́δοιν toîn agallídoin | τῶν ἀγᾰλλῐ́δων tôn agallídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἀγᾰλλῐ́δῐ têi agallídi | τοῖν ἀγᾰλλῐ́δοιν toîn agallídoin | ταῖς ἀγᾰλλῐ́σῐ / ἀγᾰλλῐ́σῐν taîs agallísi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἀγᾰλλῐ́δᾰ tḕn agallída | τὼ ἀγᾰλλῐ́δε tṑ agallíde | τᾱ̀ς ἀγᾰλλῐ́δᾰς tā̀s agallídas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἀγᾰλλῐ́ς agallís | ἀγᾰλλῐ́δε agallíde | ἀγᾰλλῐ́δες agallídes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀνᾰγᾰλλῐ́ς (anagallís)
Further reading
- ἀγαλλίς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀγαλλίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀγαλλίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2021)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) , “ἀγαλλίς”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 7