ἄγκυρα
See also: άγκυρα, Άγκυρα, and Ἄγκυρα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂enk- (“corner, hirn”), same source as ἄγκος (ánkos); the Greek word is the origin of or from the same source as Latin ancora. OED rejects a derivation from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /áŋ.kyː.ra/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈaŋ.ky.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈaɲ.ɟy.ra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈaɲ.ɟy.ra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈaɲ.ɟi.ra/
Noun
ἄγκῡρα • (ánkūra) f (genitive ἀγκῡ́ρᾱς); first declension
- anchor
- hook
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ἄγκῡρᾰ; τῆς ἀγκῡ́ρᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἄγκῡρᾰ hē ánkūra | τὼ ἀγκῡ́ρᾱ tṑ ankū́rā | αἱ ἄγκῡραι hai ánkūrai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἀγκῡ́ρᾱς tês ankū́rās | τοῖν ἀγκῡ́ραιν toîn ankū́rain | τῶν ἀγκῡρῶν tôn ankūrôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἀγκῡ́ρᾳ têi ankū́rāi | τοῖν ἀγκῡ́ραιν toîn ankū́rain | ταῖς ἀγκῡ́ραις taîs ankū́rais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἄγκῡρᾰν tḕn ánkūran | τὼ ἀγκῡ́ρᾱ tṑ ankū́rā | τᾱ̀ς ἀγκῡ́ρᾱς tā̀s ankū́rās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἄγκῡρᾰ ánkūra | ἀγκῡ́ρᾱ ankū́rā | ἄγκῡραι ánkūrai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: άγκυρα (ágkyra)
- → Latin: ancora (or a cognate) (see there for further descendants)
- → Persian: لنگر (langar)
- → Arabic: أَنْجَر (ʾanjar)
- → Gujarati: લંગર (laṅgar)
- → Ottoman Turkish: لنگر (lenger)
- Turkish: lenger
- → Armenian: լէնկէռ (lēnkēṙ)
Further reading
- “ἄγκυρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄγκυρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἄγκυρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ἄγκυρα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- “ἄγκυρα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G45 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- anchor idem, page 29.
- 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