Ancient Greek

Noun

αἰγῐ́ς • ‎(aigís) f ‎(genitive αἰγῐ́δος); third declension

1. the aegis a shield of Zeus or cloak of Athena
   • Homer, Iliad 5.738
   • Aeschylus, The Eumenides 404
   • Herodotus, Histories 4.189
   1. a goat-skin coat
      • Euripides, Cyclops 360
2. a rushing storm, hurricane
   • Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 592
3. a yellow kernel in the pith of the pine
   • Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 3.9.3
4. a speck in the eye
   • Hippocrates, The Coan Praenotions 153

Declension

Derived terms

• κᾰταιγῐ́ς ‎(kataigís)

Descendants

• Greek: αιγίδα f ‎(aigída)
• Latin: aegis

References

• αἰγίς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• αἰγίς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• αἰγίς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «αἰγίς» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «αἰγίς» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «αἰγίς» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• αἰγίς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• «αἰγίς» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• 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