ἀγνύς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, suffixes like -ῦθ- are typically Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡny̌ːs/ → /aˈɣnys/ → /aˈɣnis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.ɡny̌ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈɡnys/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈɣnys/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈɣnys/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈɣnis/

Noun

ἀγνῡ́ς • (agnū́s) f (genitive ἀγνῦθος); third declension

1. (usually in the plural) loom weight

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ἀγνῡ́ς; τῆς ἀγνῦθος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀγνῡ́ς hē agnū́s	τὼ ἀγνῦθε tṑ agnûthe	αἱ ἀγνῦθες hai agnûthes
Genitive	τῆς ἀγνῦθος tês agnûthos	τοῖν ἀγνῡ́θοιν toîn agnū́thoin	τῶν ἀγνῡ́θων tôn agnū́thōn
Dative	τῇ ἀγνῦθῐ têi agnûthĭ	τοῖν ἀγνῡ́θοιν toîn agnū́thoin	ταῖς ἀγνῦσῐ / ἀγνῦσῐν taîs agnûsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἀγνῦθᾰ tḕn agnûthă	τὼ ἀγνῦθε tṑ agnûthe	τᾱ̀ς ἀγνῦθᾰς tā̀s agnûthăs
Vocative	ἀγνῡ́ς agnū́s	ἀγνῦθε agnûthe	ἀγνῦθες agnûthes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-tʰs.

Further reading

• “ἀγνύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀγνύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀγνῦθες in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀγνύς”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 14