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ἀγαρικόν

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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Said to be from Ἁγαρία (Hagaría), a place in Sarmatia where the mushroom grew.[1] The placename is from Iranian and could possibly be from Proto-Indo-European *aǵ-r̥-, verbal noun from *h₂eǵ- (to drive), meaning something like "driving or gathering land."[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ἀγᾰρῐκόν (agarikónn (genitive ἀγᾰρῐκοῦ); second declension

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  1. type of tree-fungus, Phellinus pomaceus

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Latin: agaricum

References

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  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  2. ^ Anttila, R. (2000). Greek and Indo-European etymology in action: proto-Indo-European *aǵ-. Netherlands: J. Benjamins, p. 106

Further reading

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