ἀγέλη

See also: αγέλη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἄγω (ágō, “to lead”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡé.lɛː/ → /aˈʝe.li/ → /aˈʝe.li/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.ɡé.lɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈɡe.le̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈʝe.li/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈʝe.li/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈʝe.li/

Noun

ᾰ̓γέλη • (ăgélē) f (genitive ᾰ̓γέλης); first declension

1. herd
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.281
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.678
   1. (any group, of people or animals) company, shoal
      • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, The Shield of Heracles 168
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Fragments 112
      • 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 1022
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 168
      • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 106
      • Oppian, Halieutica 3.639
      • 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 1276
      • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 451C
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 570A.27
2. at Crete, bands or classes in which youth were trained from the age of seventeen until marriage
   • 400 BCE – 330 BCE, Ephorus, Universal History 64
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Lycurgus 16
   • Heraclides, On Politics 15

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἀγέλη; τῆς ἀγέλης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀγέλη hē agélē	τὼ ἀγέλᾱ tṑ agélā	αἱ ἀγέλαι hai agélai
Genitive	τῆς ἀγέλης tês agélēs	τοῖν ἀγέλαιν toîn agélain	τῶν ἀγελῶν tôn agelôn
Dative	τῇ ἀγέλῃ têi agélēi	τοῖν ἀγέλαιν toîn agélain	ταῖς ἀγέλαις taîs agélais
Accusative	τὴν ἀγέλην tḕn agélēn	τὼ ἀγέλᾱ tṑ agélā	τᾱ̀ς ἀγέλᾱς tā̀s agélās
Vocative	ἀγέλη agélē	ἀγέλᾱ agélā	ἀγέλαι agélai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀγελαῖος (agelaîos)

Descendants

• Greek: αγέλη (agéli)
• Coptic: ⲁⲅⲉⲗⲏ (agelē)

Further reading

• “ἀγέλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀγέλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἀγέλη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἀγέλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀγέλη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἀγέλη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• G34 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • drove idem, page 254.
  • herd idem, page 397.