Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /áɣnos/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /áɣnos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /áɣnos/

Noun

ἄγνος • ‎(ágnos) f ‎(genitive ἄγνου); second declension

1. chaste tree, Vitex agnus-castus
2. type of fish
3. type of bird

Inflection

Usage notes

The branches of the chaste tree were strewn by young women on their beds at the Thesmophoria. The notion of chastity was an association from the word's similarity to ἁγνός ‎(hagnós, “chaste”).

References

• ἄγνος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄγνος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἄγνος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἄγνος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)