ἀργύριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἄργυρος (árguros, “silver”) +‎ -ιον (-ion, diminutive).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ar.ɡý.ri.on/ → /arˈʝy.ri.on/ → /arˈʝi.ri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ar.ɡý.ri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /arˈɡy.ri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /arˈʝy.ri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /arˈʝy.ri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /arˈʝi.ri.on/

Noun

ἀργύρῐον • (argúrĭon) n (genitive ἀργῠρίου); second declension

1. small coin, coinage
2. money
3. silver

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρῐον; τοῦ ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρῐον tò ărgŭ́rĭon	τὼ ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́ω tṑ ărgŭrĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρῐᾰ tằ ărgŭ́rĭă
Genitive	τοῦ ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́ου toû ărgŭrĭ́ou	τοῖν ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́οιν toîn ărgŭrĭ́oin	τῶν ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́ων tôn ărgŭrĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́ῳ tôi ărgŭrĭ́ōi	τοῖν ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́οιν toîn ărgŭrĭ́oin	τοῖς ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́οις toîs ărgŭrĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρῐον tò ărgŭ́rĭon	τὼ ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́ω tṑ ărgŭrĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρῐᾰ tằ ărgŭ́rĭă
Vocative	ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρῐον ărgŭ́rĭon	ᾰ̓ργῠρῐ́ω ărgŭrĭ́ō	ᾰ̓ργῠ́ρῐᾰ ărgŭ́rĭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• (silver): ἄργυρος (árguros)

Further reading

• “ἀργύριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀργύριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀργύριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ἀργύριον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• G694 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.
  • cash idem, page 116.
  • coin idem, page 142.
  • money idem, page 539.
  • piece idem, page 611.
  • silver idem, page 776.