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ἄγριος
ἄγριος
See also: άγριος
Ancient Greek
Adjective
ἄγριος • (ágrios) m (feminine ἀγρία, neuter ἄγριον); first/second declension
- Living in the open fields
- (of plants or animals) wild (non-domesticated),
- (of people or animals) wild, savage, violent, fierce
- (of situations) cruel, harsh
Usage notes
Some writers treat ἄγριος as solely a second declension adjective, and so adjectives declined as masculine may be masculine or feminine.
Inflection
First and second declension of ἄγριος, ἀγρίᾱ, ἄγριον
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||
| Nominative | ἄγριος | ἀγρίᾱ | ἄγριον | ἀγρίω | ἀγρία | ἀγρίω | ἄγριοι | ἄγριαι | ἄγρια | |||
| Genitive | ἀγρίου | ἀγρίᾱς | ἀγρίου | ἀγρίοιν | ἀγρίαιν | ἀγρίοιν | ἀγρίων | ἀγρίων | ἀγρίων | |||
| Dative | ἀγρίῳ | ἀγρίᾳ | ἀγρίῳ | ἀγρίοιν | ἀγρίαιν | ἀγρίοιν | ἀγρίοις | ἀγρίαις | ἀγρίοις | |||
| Accusative | ἄγριον | ἀγρίᾱν | ἄγριον | ἀγρίω | ἀγρία | ἀγρίω | ἀγρίους | ἀγρίας | ἄγρια | |||
| Vocative | ἄγριε | ἀγρίᾱ | ἄγριον | ἀγρίω | ἀγρία | ἀγρίω | ἄγριοι | ἄγριαι | ἄγρια | |||
Antonyms
- ἥμερος (hḗmeros)
Descendants
- Greek: άγριος (ágrios, “wild, fierce”)
References
- ἄγριος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἄγριος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἄγριος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «ἄγριος» 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
- «ἄγριος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- «ἄγριος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
- ἄγριος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- “G66”, 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.
- atrocious idem, page 49.
- barbarous idem, page 62.
- brutal idem, page 102.
- cruel idem, page 187.
- devilish idem, page 220.
- fell idem, page 314.
- ferocious idem, page 316.
- fiendish idem, page 318.
- fierce idem, page 318.
- grisly idem, page 374.
- hard idem, page 385.
- heartless idem, page 392.
- inhuman idem, page 441.
- savage idem, page 735.
- stony idem, page 819.
- uncivilised idem, page 909.
- uncultivated idem, page 911.
- unnamed idem, page 926.
- unreclaimed idem, page 929.
- untamable idem, page 934.
- untamed idem, page 934.
- wild idem, page 979.