ἐγγύς
See also: εγγύς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Seems to be from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“hand”), whence γυῖον (guîon, “hand”). Thus meaning "at hand".
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /eŋ.ɡýs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /eŋˈɡys/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /eɲˈɟys/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /eɲˈɟys/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /eɲˈɟis/
Adverb
ἐγγῠ́ς • (engús)
- near
- (of place)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.86
- 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1217
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.340
- 430 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 37
- 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 686
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 65
- 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 59
- 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, On the Refusal of a Pension 20
- (of time)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 22.453
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.3.2
- (of numbers)
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.5
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 3.1.28
- 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 198B
- 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 30
- 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 96
- (of qualities)
- 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 520A
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.13
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.22
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.86
- 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 288
- 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 452E
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 116B
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 508C
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 65A
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Philip 123
- (of relationships) akin
- 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 30A
- 4th century BC, Isaeus, Pyrrhus 72
- 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 388
- 390 BCE, Plato, Hippias Major 304D
- 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 1666
- (of place)
Inflection
- Comparative: ἐγγῠτέρω (engutérō), ἐγγῠ́τερον (engúteron), ἔγγῑον (éngīon)
- Superlative: ἐγγῠτᾰ́τω (engutátō), ἐγγῠ́τᾰτᾰ (engútata), ἔγγῐστᾰ (éngista)
Derived terms
- ἐγγῐ́ζω (engízō)
References
- “ἐγγύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐγγύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἐγγύς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἐγγύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐγγύς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἐγγύς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- “ἐγγύς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G1451 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.
- by idem, page 107.
- close by idem, page 138.
- closely idem, page 139.
- contiguously idem, page 168.
- hand idem, page 382.
- near idem, page 553.
- next idem, page 557.
- 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