ἀγρεῖφνα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, the prothetic vowel and the suffix "-να" lead to a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡrêː.pʰna/ → /aˈɣri.ɸna/ → /aˈɣri.fna/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.ɡrêː.pʰna/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈɡri.pʰna/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈɣri.ɸna/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈɣri.fna/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈɣri.fna/

Noun

ἀγρεῖφνα • (agreîphna) f (genitive ἀγρείφνᾱς); first declension

1. harrow

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀγρεῖφνᾰ; τῆς ἀγρείφνᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀγρεῖφνᾰ hē agreîphnă	τὼ ἀγρείφνᾱ tṑ agreíphnā	αἱ ἀγρεῖφναι hai agreîphnai
Genitive	τῆς ἀγρείφνᾱς tês agreíphnās	τοῖν ἀγρείφναιν toîn agreíphnain	τῶν ἀγρειφνῶν tôn agreiphnôn
Dative	τῇ ἀγρείφνᾳ têi agreíphnāi	τοῖν ἀγρείφναιν toîn agreíphnain	ταῖς ἀγρείφναις taîs agreíphnais
Accusative	τὴν ἀγρεῖφνᾰν tḕn agreîphnăn	τὼ ἀγρείφνᾱ tṑ agreíphnā	τᾱ̀ς ἀγρείφνᾱς tā̀s agreíphnās
Vocative	ἀγρεῖφνᾰ agreîphnă	ἀγρείφνᾱ agreíphnā	ἀγρεῖφναι agreîphnai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ἀγρεῖφνα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀγρεῖφνα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• 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