Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• 𐀀𐀐𐀫 ‎(a-ke-ro) (Mycenaean)

Noun

ἄγγελος • ‎(ángelos) m ‎(genitive ἀγγέλου); second declension

1. a messenger
2. one that announces
3. (later) angel, heavenly spirit

Inflection

Derived terms

• ἀγγέλλω ‎(angéllō)
• ἀγγελία ‎(angelía)
• εὐαγγελίζω ‎(euangelízō)
• εὐαγγέλιον ‎(euangélion)

Descendants

References

• ἄγγελος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄγγελος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἄγγελος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἄγγελος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἄγγελος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «ἄγγελος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• ἄγγελος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G32”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • announcer idem, page 30.
  • apostle idem, page 34.
  • bearer idem, page 67.
  • courier idem, page 178.
  • emissary idem, page 268.
  • envoy idem, page 279.
  • forerunner idem, page 337.
  • harbinger idem, page 385.
  • herald idem, page 397.
  • messenger idem, page 527.
  • reporter idem, page 697.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 9
• Frisk, Hjalmar (1960–1972), “ἄγγελος”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter
• Klein, Dr. Ernest, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., 1971.
• J[ohn] A. Simpson and E[dward] S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.