ἄγχουσα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἔγχουσα (énkhousa)

Etymology

The variant excludes a derivation from ἄγχω (ánkhō, “to strangle, throttle, choke”), thus the word is from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /áŋ.kʰuː.sa/ → /ˈaŋ.xu.sa/ → /ˈaŋ.xu.sa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /áŋ.kʰuː.sa/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈaŋ.kʰu.sa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈaŋ.xu.sa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈaŋ.xu.sa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈaŋ.xu.sa/

Noun

ἄγχουσᾰ • (ánkhousă) f (genitive ἀγχούσης); first declension

1. alkanet (Alkanna tinctoria)
2. dyeing matter extracted from the plant

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἄγχουσᾰ; τῆς ἀγχούσης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἄγχουσᾰ hē ánkhousă	τὼ ἀγχούσᾱ tṑ ankhoúsā	αἱ ἄγχουσαι hai ánkhousai
Genitive	τῆς ἀγχούσης tês ankhoúsēs	τοῖν ἀγχούσαιν toîn ankhoúsain	τῶν ἀγχουσῶν tôn ankhousôn
Dative	τῇ ἀγχούσῃ têi ankhoúsēi	τοῖν ἀγχούσαιν toîn ankhoúsain	ταῖς ἀγχούσαις taîs ankhoúsais
Accusative	τὴν ἄγχουσᾰν tḕn ánkhousăn	τὼ ἀγχούσᾱ tṑ ankhoúsā	τᾱ̀ς ἀγχούσᾱς tā̀s ankhoúsās
Vocative	ἄγχουσᾰ ánkhousă	ἀγχούσᾱ ankhoúsā	ἄγχουσαι ánkhousai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κατάγχουσα (katánkhousa)
• ψευδάγχουσα (pseudánkhousa)

Descendants

• → Translingual: Anchusa

References

• “ἄγχουσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄγχουσα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄγχουσα 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