ἀγκάλη
See also: αγκάλη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Compare ἄγκος (ánkos, “bend”)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /aŋ.ká.lɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aŋˈka.le̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aŋˈɡa.li/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aŋˈɡa.li/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aŋˈɡa.li/
Noun
ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λη • (ankálē) f (genitive ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λης); first declension
- the bent arm
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 723
- 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 481
- 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 351
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.5.50
- 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 289
- 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 464
- 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 761
- 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 1250
- 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 962
- 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 747
- 600 BCE – 300 BCE, Corinna, Collected Works 19
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.61
- 400 BCE – 300 BCE, Timocles, Collected Works 7.4
- (figuratively) anything closely enfolding
- 680 BCE – 645 BCE, Archilochus, Collected Works 23
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1019
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 587
- 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 1378
- 400 BCE – 300 BCE, Nausicrates, Collected Works 1.3
- 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 941
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λη; τῆς ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λη hē ankálē | τὼ ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λᾱ tṑ ankálā | αἱ ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λαι hai ankálai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λης tês ankálēs | τοῖν ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λαιν toîn ankálain | τῶν ᾰ̓γκᾰλῶν tôn ankalôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λῃ têi ankálēi | τοῖν ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λαιν toîn ankálain | ταῖς ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λαις taîs ankálais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λην tḕn ankálēn | τὼ ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λᾱ tṑ ankálā | τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λᾱς tā̀s ankálās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λη ankálē | ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λᾱ ankálā | ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λαι ankálai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: αγκάλη (agkáli)
Further reading
- “ἀγκάλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀγκάλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀγκάλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀγκάλη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- G43 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible