ἀγριέλαιος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἄγριος (ágrios, “wild”) +‎ ἐλαία (elaía, “olive”) +‎ -ος (-os).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡri.é.lai̯.os/ → /a.ɣriˈe.lɛ.os/ → /a.ɣriˈe.le.os/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.ɡri.é.lai̯.os/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.ɡriˈe.lɛ.os/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.ɣriˈe.lɛ.os/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.ɣriˈe.le.os/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.ɣriˈe.le.os/

Adjective

ᾰ̓γρῐέλαιος • (agriélaios) m or f (neuter ᾰ̓γρῐέλαιον); second declension

1. of a wild olive
   • Palatine Anthology 9.237
2. (substantive) wild olive
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 7.18
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 2.2.5
   • New Testament, Epistle to the Romans 11:17

Inflection

Second declension of ᾰ̓γρῐέλαιος; ᾰ̓γρῐέλαιον (Attic)

Number		Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ᾰ̓γρῐέλαιος agriélaios	ᾰ̓γρῐέλαιον agriélaion		ᾰ̓γρῐελαίω agrielaíō	ᾰ̓γρῐελαίω agrielaíō		ᾰ̓γρῐέλαιοι agriélaioi	ᾰ̓γρῐέλαιᾰ agriélaia
Genitive		ᾰ̓γρῐελαίου agrielaíou	ᾰ̓γρῐελαίου agrielaíou		ᾰ̓γρῐελαίοιν agrielaíoin	ᾰ̓γρῐελαίοιν agrielaíoin		ᾰ̓γρῐελαίων agrielaíōn	ᾰ̓γρῐελαίων agrielaíōn
Dative		ᾰ̓γρῐελαίῳ agrielaíōi	ᾰ̓γρῐελαίῳ agrielaíōi		ᾰ̓γρῐελαίοιν agrielaíoin	ᾰ̓γρῐελαίοιν agrielaíoin		ᾰ̓γρῐελαίοις agrielaíois	ᾰ̓γρῐελαίοις agrielaíois
Accusative		ᾰ̓γρῐέλαιον agriélaion	ᾰ̓γρῐέλαιον agriélaion		ᾰ̓γρῐελαίω agrielaíō	ᾰ̓γρῐελαίω agrielaíō		ᾰ̓γρῐελαίους agrielaíous	ᾰ̓γρῐέλαιᾰ agriélaia
Vocative		ᾰ̓γρῐέλαιε agriélaie	ᾰ̓γρῐέλαιον agriélaion		ᾰ̓γρῐελαίω agrielaíō	ᾰ̓γρῐελαίω agrielaíō		ᾰ̓γρῐέλαιοι agriélaioi	ᾰ̓γρῐέλαιᾰ agriélaia
Derived forms		Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
		ᾰ̓γρῐελαίως agrielaíōs			ᾰ̓γρῐελαιότερος agrielaióteros			ᾰ̓γρῐελαιότᾰτος agrielaiótatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ἀγριέλαιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀγριέλαιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀγριέλαιος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀγριέλαιος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G65 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible